1. His close friend Wilkie Collins was outselling him with " The Moonstone," 2. Wilkie Collins , for instance, was never more than a week before publication.3. :Wilkie Collins wrote one of the first detective novels in The Moonstone. 4. Some years later, in 1868, Wilkie Collins wrote " The Moonstone ". 5. Wilkie Collins "'The Moonstone " ( 1868 ) features a rudimentary locked-room murder.6. During this period he worked closely with the novelist and playwright Wilkie Collins . 7. In 1864 the novelist Wilkie Collins visited the village while preparing common-law wife. 8. The 1868 novel by Wilkie Collins has a plethora of confusing cousinly relationships. 9. Popular authors she reviewed included Anthony Trollope, George Eliot, George Meredith and Wilkie Collins . 10. Sometimes, she reminded me of the Victorian heroine of one of Wilkie Collins 's novels.