English writer noted for early detective novels (1824-1889) WordNet 3.0 & Open English WordNet

William Wilkie Collins was an English novelist and playwright known especially for The Woman in White, a mystery novel and early "sensation novel", and for The Moonstone, which established many of the ground rules of the modern detective novel and is also perhaps the earliest clear example of the police procedural genre. Wikipedia

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