Books
For his intricately worked plots, his swirling conspiracies, ghostly doubles, white-clad women on lonely midnight roads, furtive East Indians prepared to kill to recover a purloined moonstone, detectives who brood down wrong turns or bore holes in walls to spy on their suspects, defiant fallen women and the gleefully wicked men who trip them up--for all these things the Victorian novelist Wilkie Collins was named by one of his publishers “The King of Inventors.”
Dec. 16, 1993
What fun William J. Palmer must have had writing “The Detective and Mr. Dickens.”
Jan. 20, 1991
World & Nation
For years, they’ve been packing them in like sardines at the aquarium at UCSD’s Scripps Institution of Oceanography, the aging facility that officials have long acknowledged has simply outlived its usefulness as a public attraction.
Sept. 14, 1989
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June 11, 2008
The story of a murder case that gripped Victorian England won Britain’s richest nonfiction book prize Tuesday.
July 16, 2008
June 16, 2008
Entertainment & Arts
Michael Crawford, who starred in the London, New York and Los Angeles productions of Andrew Lloyd Webber’s “The Phantom of the Opera,” will return to the West End this summer to appear in the composer’s latest show, “The Woman in White.”
March 3, 2004
The Glass of Time A Novel; Michael Cox; W.W. Norton: 586 pp., $24.95
Dec. 22, 2008
A 19th century British novel based on America’s first recorded wrongful conviction is being reissued.
Jan. 6, 2006
When Charles Dickens’ weekly magazine, All the Year Round, was going through a circulation slump in 1860, his friend Wilkie Collins had an idea: Write a mystery.
May 13, 1990