The first of Collins’s many contributions to Dickens’s magazine was a short story titled ‘A Terribly Strange Bed’. (There’s a nice twist in the tale, though we won’t say any more than that!)Ĥ. The novel centres on the theft of the eponymous gemstone, a rare diamond, and the attempts made by several detective figures – notably Sergeant Cuff – to retrieve it, and find out the identity of the criminal. Eliot the first and greatest of the detective novels, though in fact several novels published earlier in the 1860s have a stronger claim to being the first (if not the greatest). Collins’s 1868 novel The Moonstone was called by T. He’s credited with writing the first detective novel. Collins would be able to demand substantial sums for his subsequent novels as he became hot literary property: he received £5,000 for his novel Armadale in 1866, a huge sum for the time.ģ. The Woman in White was the novel that made Collins a famous name and helped to establish the vogue for sensation fiction, a genre that would enjoy its heyday in the 1860s.
Wilkie Collins’s 1860 novel The Woman in White was so popular it spawned stage-plays, perfumes, hats, cloaks, and even a waltz.
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