Wilkie Collins is recognized today as one of the ... Collins fashioned plot lines of watchwork precision for 36 separate books, including his masterpieces, The Moonstone and The Woman in White.

Peter Ackroyd charts the life of Wilkie Collins, from his childhood as the son of an artist, to his struggles to become a writer, and his life-long friendship with Charles Dickens ...

Lucy Strange’s third book combines a spooky ghost story with a clever page-turning mystery. The author sets her shivery tale of spectres and wrongdoings in the English Lake District in 1899.