Photographing the Granddaddy of Detective Fiction
Submitted by Carolyn Vega on Fri, 07/22/2011 - 1:32pmWilkie Collins, who not as well known today as his contemporary and collaborator Charles Dickens, was, in his heyday, a literary celebrity -- and he is perhaps best remembered now as the author of The Moonstone, which T. S. Eliot described as the first and greatest of English detective novels.