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Classic Mystery Collection - Crime, Suspense, Detective fiction. (100+ works including The Complete ...

1 review, ...

MobileReference, 2007

Classic Mystery Collection - EBOOK
'Classic Mystery Collection' is an excellent ebook! 1-click wireless delivery to my Kindle. Easy to use. Good navigation. Thank you!

Great tales of terror and the supernatural

24 reviews
Edgar Allen Poe, H.P. Lovecraft, ...

Modern Library, 1944

Essential -- the roots of modern short horror fiction
This book is, quite simply, the best collection of 19th and early-20th century short fiction of the dark variety in existence. First published in the 1940s, this single (albeit fat) volume is a goldmine of the roots of modern horror, a great way to see where today's horror heavyweights got their inspiration and influence. Some authors whose stories appear within: Bierce, Blackwood, Dickens, ...

The Moonstone

1 review
Wilkie Collins

Wildside Press, 2008

treat yourself to this gourmet book
The Moonstone by Wilkie Collins The Moonstone is an engaging work. The book is very enjoyable and memorable. The Moonstone is considered the first detective novel ever written.

Classic Ghost Stories (Dover Thrift Editions)

2 reviews
Wilkie Collins, M. R. James, ...

Dover Publications, 1998

This was an excellent book!
This was a very excellent book & I had a hard time putting it down to do my chores. Very well worth the purchase!

The Moonstone (Wordsworth Classics) (Wordsworth Classics)

68 reviews
Wilkie Collins

Wordsworth Editions Ltd, 1997

Fantastic Mystery!
I have to admit that until I did a mystery search, I hadn't even heard of Wilkie Collins. Wilkie Collins name came up, along with a description of The Moonstone as being "the best of modern English detective novels" (as quoted by T.S.Eliot). Big words, indeed. With those lofty expectations, I read The Moonstone, and have to say that this mystery definitely delivered. It lived up to those words. ...

The Law and the Lady (Oxford World's Classics)

3 reviews
Wilkie Collins

Oxford University Press, USA, 1999

Another Good One for Wilkie
I was not sure how I was going to like this book just finishing the Woman in White a short time ago. I knew going in that this was not one of his more famous works but I bought it since I have read five others written by him and I had so far very much liked all the others (Dead Secret, Haunted Hotel, Woman in White, No Name & The Moonstone). This book did not disappoint me and, in fact, I read ...

Woman in White

1 review

B&R Samizdat Express, 2008

Fantastic story
This is a fantastic story of two sisters one of whom enters into an unfortunate marriage not knowing anything about the danger this decision will pose to her life. It is a romance and a mystery. Lots of turns and twists all written in a beautiful language. I can't help but see it as a great period film! Kindle version has lots of errors in it. Words run into each other, some that should not ...

The Woman in White, and Other Novels

114 reviews, 2008

Another gem from Collins
Similar to Wilkie Collins other masterpiece, The Moonstone, various characters narrate sections of The Woman in White and the story is told as the characters look back on what has already happened. This method of building a mystery is fantastic because we, as readers, also become sleuths in the mystery that takes place. Collins ability to get into characters heads enhances the level of suspense, ...

The Woman in White (Giant Thrifts)

3 reviews
Wilkie Collins

Dover Publications, 2005

This has everything
This book satisfies the mystery lover, the romantic, the reader who loves period novels, everything you could want. It was hard to put down, and recommened to me by more than just one avid reader as one of their favorites.

No Name (Oxford World's Classics)

14 reviews
Wilkie Collins

Oxford University Press, USA, 1998

"Mr. Vanstone's daughters are Nobody's Children"
4 1/2 stars, but I rounded up. No Name is the story and portrait of Magdalen Vanstone... or as Wilkie introduces his novel in the preface, "Here is one more book that depicts the struggle of a human creature, under those opposing influences of Good and Evil, which we have all felt, which we have all known." It's a fairly accurate description as throughout the course of the story, we see the ...

THE DEAD SECRET (POCKET CLASSICS)

7 reviews
WILKIE COLLINS

SUTTON PUBLISHING LTD, 1986

An appetizer for further greatness to come!
Mrs Treverton, who is not expected to live through the night, summons her lady's maid, Sarah Leeson, to her side. Their hushed conversation reveals that, many years ago, Sarah and Mrs Treverton conspired together to cover up a devastating family secret. With her death fast approaching, Mrs Treverton demands the expiation of that guilt and attempts to force Sarah to reveal the details of the ...

The Woman in White (Enriched Classics)

4 reviews
Wilkie Collins

Pocket, 2005

Journey Into the Past
I thoroughly enjoyed this book. It is, of course, written differently than the novels today. But that is a part of its appeal. The author descriptively paints a portrait with his words and I gladly stepped into the story. We read the book in our book club and everyone loved it. Give it a try and see if you like it.

The Moonstone (Dover Thrift Editions)

8 reviews
Wilkie Collins

Dover Publications, 2002

Delightful reading!
The Moonstone is chock-full of everything a Victorian novel should have: vivid and colorful characters, intricate language, elaborate plots, and bizarre coincidences. The insight into Victorian ideas about race, class and gender alone gives it tremendous value and merit. This book simply shouldn't be read with modern expectations. Just sit back and let the story take you back to a different ...

The Moonstone (Wilkie Collins Classic Fiction)

Diggory Press (www.diggorypress.com), 2008

Armadale

13 reviews

B&R Samizdat Express, 2008

A Spectacular Suspense Thriller - Collins At His Best!!
Wilkie Collins' suspense thriller "Armadale" contains no less than four main characters, named Allen Armadale - two fathers, each with a single son and heir. Only one Allen Armadale, however, is the rightful owner of the estate, Thorpe-Ambrose, plus a fortune in pounds sterling, and title to land and wealth in Barbados, West Indies. Although the plot sounds convoluted, if only by containing so ...

The Haunted Hotel & Other Stories (Wordsworth Mystery & Supernatural)

2 reviews
Wilkie Collins

Wordsworth Editions Ltd, 2006

Uneven Collection Printed on Low Quality Paper, But Inexpensive
This inexpensive Wordsworth edition includes the novella The Haunted Hotel (about 150 pages) and eight short stories involving ghosts, the supernatural, and villainy of one sort or another. Wilkie Collins is remembered primarily for two novels, The Moonstone (1868) and The Woman in White (1859), that markedly influenced the development of the mystery novel. The Haunted Hotel (1878) offers a ...

Works of Wilkie Collins. (50+ Works) Includes The Woman in White, The Moonstone, Armadale, No Name and more. ...

1 review, ...

MobileReference, 2008

Easy to navigate and read
Works of Wilkie Collins. (50+ Works) FREE Author's biography and stories in the trial version. This was one of the easiest ebooks to navigate through that I have ever seen. A perfect addition to my newly expanding Kindle Library.

The Woman in White (Barnes & Noble Classics)

2 reviews
Wilkie Collins

Barnes & Noble Classics, 2005

My "read of the year"
Let me say this -- I LOVED this book. I devoured it over a couple of days and have reread pages and passages since. I don't often choose to read victorian gothic, but the characters and the plot devices really hooked me. Setting: England, circa 1800s. Lush countryside estates. Characters: Two half sisters, bound through maternal line -- one rich, one poor -- one pretty, one not so much -- one ...

Hide and Seek

1 review

B&R Samizdat Express, 2008

A solid, satisfying read...
I loved this book. I have only read "The Haunted Hotel and Other Stories". I have yet to read "The Woman in White" and "The Moonstone" (which I will read soon enough...) so I am not most reliable Wilkie Collins fan (fast becoming one though). I have read other Victorian authors but I find Collins to be the most enjoyable (not forgetting Braddon as well...equally beautiful in her writing). His ...

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