English novelist, credited with writing the first mystery.
Wilkie was immensely popular in his time, and wrote 25 novels and over 50 short stories. His most successful works were The Woman in White, No Name, Armadale, and The Moonstone. He was one of the first, and is still one of the greatest, writers of mystery fiction, and has been much imitated over the years.
Contents
Little Novels (1887)
No Thoroughfare (1867)
The Frozen Deep (1874)
Hide and Seek (1854)
The Dead Alive (1873)
The Queen of Hearts (1859)
Man and Wife (1870)
Basil (1852)
Poor Miss Finch (1872)
Blind Love (1889)
The Legacy of Cain (1889)
Heart and Science (1883)
I Say No (1884)
The Fallen Leaves (1879)
Basil-A tale of criminality, almost revolting from its domestic horrors.
No Thoroughfare-
Two boys from the Foundling Hospital are given the same name, (Walter Wilding), with disastrous consequences in adulthood. After the death of one – now a proprietor of a wine merchant's company – the executors, to right the wrong, are commissioned to find a missing heir. Their quest takes them from wine cellars in the City of London to the sunshine of the Mediterranean – across the Alps in winter. Danger and treachery would prevail were it not for the courage of the heroine, Marguerite, and a faithful company servant.
Poor Miss Finch- A novel about a young blind woman who temporarily regains her sight while finding herself in a romantic triangle with two brothers.
Man and Wife-
In a Prologue, a selfish and ambitious man casts off his wife in order to marry a wealthier and better-connected woman, by taking advantage of a loophole in the marriage laws of Ireland.
