The Haunted Hotel

William Wilkie Collins (1824-1889) was an English novelist, playwright and short story writer best known for "The Woman in White" (1859) and "The Moonstone" (1868). The last has been called the first modern English detective novel. Born to the family of a painter, William Collins, in London, he grew up in Italy and France, learning French and Italian. He began work as a clerk for a tea merchant. A...