31. Wilkie Collins 'epistolary novel " locked room mysteries was one of the landmarks in the history of crime fiction.32. The success of Dickens'book prompted Christmas books by William Makepeace Thackeray, Hans Christian Andersen, Wilkie Collins and Horatio Alger. 33. A mix of influences is evident to reviewers : Henry James, Shirley Jackson, Wilkie Collins , and Edgar Allan Poe. 34. A member of the circle of friends that included Dickens and Wilkie Collins , Egg features in their surviving correspondence. 35. The novel is set in 19th-century England, influenced by Wilkie Collins and Charlotte Bront? with hints of Victorian gothic. 36. Wilkie Collins dictated the last part of ( beginitalic ) The Moonstone ( enditalic ) under the effects of opium.37. Her first husband was the artist and author Charles Allston Collins, younger brother of Wilkie Collins ; they married in 1860. 38. He even writes a book about mystery fiction in which he deals sternly with Edgar Allan Poe and Wilkie Collins . 39. Wilkie Collins reviewed it scathingly, declaring that " The characters by whose aid the story is worked out, are simply impossible.40. The famous literary opium addicts Thomas De Quincey, Samuel Taylor Coleridge and Wilkie Collins also took it for its pleasurable effects.
