![]() Winn advised: “These are old-fashioned stories with hammy, improbable plots that somehow sound wonderful if you pretend you are Lunt and Fontanne and emote for all you’re worth.” ![]() ![]() The volume contained a short list of “Books to be Read Aloud,” and one of the entries was “Anything by Wilkie Collins.” My introduction to Collins came through a compendium of essays for mystery lovers called “Murder Ink,” edited by Dilys Winn. How does anyone read Wilkie’s best stuff and not immediately go seek out the rest? Admittedly, these other works do not live up Collins at his best, but they most certainly are worth your time. ![]() This is a woeful state of affairs, people. “No Name” and “Armadale,” both excellent novels written during the same creative years that produced the aforementioned classics, do not have as many reviews and ratings combined to come anywhere near “The Moonstone,” and that one is a distant runner-up to “The Woman in White.” The evidence? While the two classics noted above have hundreds of thousands of ratings and thousands of reader reviews at, and their titles can be dropped into conversations among book readers with confidence that others will have read them, or at least plan to, the same cannot be said for his many other works. ![]()
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