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He wrote the first full-length detective novels in English and set a mould for the genre as shown in The Moonstone and "The Woman in White."   John Sutherland is the Lord Northcliffe Professor of Modern English Literature at University College London and wrote the introduction to Chekhov’s The Shooting Party for Penguin Cla

Title	:	Armadale (Penguin Classics)
Author	:	Wilkie Collins
Rating	:	4.87 (389 Votes)
Asin	:	0140434119
Format Type	:	Paperback
Number of Pages	:	752Pages
Publish Date	:	2014-1-27
Language	:	English

He wrote the first full-length detective novels in English and set a mould for the genre as shown in The Moonstone and "The Woman in White."   John Sutherland is the Lord Northcliffe Professor of Modern English Literature at University College London and wrote the introduction to Chekhov’s The Shooting Party for Penguin Classics.

. Wilkie (William) Collins (1824-89) was a hugely successful and popular crime, mystery and suspense wr

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