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Wilkie Collins established a reputation for himself as a highly readable storyteller. This engaging collection spanning thirty years displays his characteristic powers with twelve short stories from a number of genres. He explores the uncanny peculiarities of everyday life, as well as its underside, offers haunting ghost stories, and makes an important contribution to the newly emerging form of the detective novel.

Hardcover:

9780891902478 | Amereon Ltd, June 1, 1940, cover price $19.95

Paperback:

9780192837721 | Oxford Univ Pr, April 22, 1999, cover price $10.95
9780192822604 | Reprint edition (Oxford Univ Pr, March 1, 1994), cover price $9.95 | also contains Love That Kitty!: The Story of a Boy Who Wanted to Be a Cat | About this edition: Wilkie Collins established a reputation for himself as a highly readable storyteller.

Hardcover:

9780403005598 | Reprint Services Corp, June 1, 1972, cover price $89.00

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Product Description: Wilkie Collins (1824-89), associate of Charles Dickens and author of 15 novels, is perhaps best known for the great mystery novel The Moonstone. But Collins also wrote short stories, tales of terror and the supernatural, which many consider comparable to those of Poe and J...read more

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9780844647258 | Peter Smith Pub Inc, June 1, 1972, cover price $11.00 | About this edition: Wilkie Collins (1824-89), associate of Charles Dickens and author of 15 novels, is perhaps best known for the great mystery novel The Moonstone.

Paperback:

9780486203072 | Dover Pubns, June 1, 1972, cover price $14.95 | About this edition: Twelve supernatural tales are accompanied by a discussion of Collins' life and literary achievements

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Product Description: Wilkie Collins is best known for his great mystery The Moonstone and The Woman in White―and for a life as sensational as are those novels. (The writer who famously advised other novelists to ‘make ‘em laugh, make ‘em cry, make ‘em wait’ is now known to have kept entire households in different parts of England going simultaneously...read more

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9781551110172 | Broadview Pr, February 1, 1994, cover price $24.95 | About this edition: Wilkie Collins is best known for his great mystery The Moonstone and The Woman in White―and for a life as sensational as are those novels.

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Product Description: The Woman in White (1860) is a tale of mystery and mistaken identity told by its various characters in turn. From the moment when a lovely young woman suprises Walter Hartright in moonlit north London, Collins keeps the reader in suspense until the entire mesh of secrets is unwoven...read more

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9780192823335 | Oxford Univ Pr, August 1, 1994, cover price $16.95 | About this edition: The Woman in White (1860) is a tale of mystery and mistaken identity told by its various characters in turn.

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9780681007802, titled "Wilkie Collins: The Moonstone, the Haunted Hotel, My Lady's Money" | Longmeadow Pr, November 1, 1994, cover price $3.98

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Product Description: A volume of two stories, from the POCKET CLASSICS series, in which a young girl dreads the return of a spurned lover, and the interest of two bankers is aroused by a man carrying a large cash-box around town. From the author of THE MOONSTONE.

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9780750912068 | Sutton Pub Ltd, April 1, 1999, cover price $10.95 | About this edition: A volume of two stories, from the POCKET CLASSICS series, in which a young girl dreads the return of a spurned lover, and the interest of two bankers is aroused by a man carrying a large cash-box around town.

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Product Description: Written 150 years ago, never published, and presumed lost for nearly a century, Wilkie Collins's earliest novel now appears in print for the first time. Ioláni is a sensational romance--a tale of terror and suspense, bravery and betrayal, set against the lush backdrop of Tahiti...read more

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9780691034461 | Princeton Univ Pr, May 1, 1999, cover price $37.50 | About this edition: Written 150 years ago, never published, and presumed lost for nearly a century, Wilkie Collins's earliest novel now appears in print for the first time.

Cassette/Spoken Word:

9781896552255 | Unabridged edition (Tangled Web Audio, June 1, 1999), cover price $16.95

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By Wilkie Collins and Bernard Mayes (narrator)

Cassette/Spoken Word:

9780786118632 | Unabridged edition (Blackstone Audio Inc, January 1, 2000), cover price $32.95

One night, on the road to London, a young drawing master, Walter Hartright, meets a mysterious woman dressed in white and in need of help. But who is she and why is she being followed by two men? And what is her connection with his pupil Laura Fairlie, the woman he secretly loves?

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9780582430297 | Penguin Longman Pub, June 23, 2000, cover price $30.80 | About this edition: One night, on the road to London, a young drawing master, Walter Hartright, meets a mysterious woman dressed in white and in need of help.

The Moonstone is an ancient Indian diamond which brings disaster and tragedy to everyone who owns it. Rachel Verinder's uncle gives it to her as a birthday present but the same night it is stolen. Published in 1868, this is now seen as the first, and one of the best, detective novels ever written.

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9780582430259 | Penguin Longman Pub, July 5, 2000, cover price $32.95 | About this edition: The Moonstone is an ancient Indian diamond which brings disaster and tragedy to everyone who owns it.

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Collects tales of mystery and suspense, including a policeman's investigation of a young widow accused of murdering her husband, and of a London barrister's vacation among American relatives.
By Wilkie Collins and Martin Jarvis (foreword by)

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9781843910190 | Hesperus Pr, January 1, 2003, cover price $13.00 | About this edition: Collects tales of mystery and suspense, including a policeman's investigation of a young widow accused of murdering her husband, and of a London barrister's vacation among American relatives.

Paperback:

9788484280705, titled "W. Collins: La Vida Secreta De Wilkie Collins / the Secret Life of Wilkie Collins" | Alba Editorial S.L., April 7, 2003, cover price $66.95

Hardcover:

9781414205274 | Indypublish.Com, September 1, 2003, cover price $78.99

Paperback:

9781414205281 | Indypublish.Com, September 1, 2003, cover price $72.99

Hardcover:

9781414205298, titled "A Naturalist's Voyage Round the World" | Indypublish.Com, September 1, 2003, cover price $84.99

Paperback:

9781414205304, titled "A Naturalist's Voyage Round the World" | Indypublish.Com, September 1, 2003, cover price $77.99

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