Wilkie Collins

En cette nuit du 23 août 1829, sur la côte déchiquetée des Cornouailles, la résidence d'été des Treverton n'est plus que silence et ténèbres...

Late one moonlit night, Walter Hartright encounters a solitary and terrified woman dressed all in white. He saves her from capture by her pursuers, and determines to solve the mystery of her distress....

Considered the first full-length detective novel in the English language, T.S. Eliot described The Moonstone as 'the first and greatest English detective novel'....

Published in instalments in 1859, The Woman in White is often considered to be one of the very first detective novels....

Young Walter Hartright meets the mysterious woman in white in what soon became one of the most popular novels of the 19th century....

The Classic Crime Collection is a collection of 12 classic detective novels, read by an esteemed cast of award-winning narrators.

The course of this narrative describes the return of a disembodied spirit to earth, and leads the listener on new and strange ground. Not in the obscurity of midnight, but in the searching light of day, did the supernatural influence assert itself.

Wilkie Collins' follow-up to The Woman in White and No Name is an innovative take on mistaken identity, the nature of evil, and the dark underbelly of Victorian England....

Magdalen and Norah Vanstone have known only comfort and affluence for their entire lives. Orphaned suddenly following the unexpected deaths of their parents, the illegitimate sisters find themselves flung into the other extreme of living....

Upon inheriting the Moonstone, a huge and priceless diamond, Rachel Verinder's delight turns to dismay when the gem suddenly disappears. But this is no ordinary theft....

This choice collection of spine tingling tales runs the gamut from slightly spooky to "I'm sleeping with all the lights on tonight!" A splendid grouping of tales from the pens of some of the great writers of the past. Enjoy these classic stories alone or with a friend, whenever your ears are free.

Mrs Zant has recently lost her beloved husband, and while walking in the Kensington Gardens she feels his presence trying to warn her of some coming danger....

Madame Pratolungo is a close companion to Lucilla Finch, a young woman who has been blind since birth. Madame Pratolungo records the narrative of Lucilla's trials....

The Moonstone, a priceless yellow diamond, is looted from an Indian temple and maliciously bequeathed to Rachel Verinder. On her 18th birthday, her friend and suitor Franklin Blake brings the gift to her. That very night, it is stolen again....

Toby Stephens and Juliet Aubrey star in a BBC Radio 4 full-cast dramatisation of Wilkie Collins’ chilling Gothic drama....

The Woman in White famously opens with Walter Hartright's eerie encounter on a moonlit London road....

This delightful tale of thwarted ambition and forbidden love follows the adventures and fortunes of an endearing young rogue, Frank Softly....

No, the "Moonstone" isn't a celestial relic, it's a gigantic yellow diamond of unearthly beauty...

Six of Wilkie Collins' best short stories: "The Dead Hand", "The Devil's Spectacles", "Major Namby", "Nine O'Clock", "A Terribly Strange Bed", and "My Black Mirror"....

One of the greatest mystery thrillers ever written, Wilkie Collins's The Woman in White was a phenomenal best seller in the 1860s....