biography
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Collins, (William) Wilkie
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| male
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| lived:
| (1824–89)
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| biography:
| Novelist, born in London, UK. He spent four years in business, then entered Lincoln's Inn to train as a lawyer, but gradually took to literature, becoming a master of the mystery story. His best-known works are The Woman in White (1860) and The Moonstone (1868), the first full-length detective story in the English language. |
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