Wilkie Collins was an English novelist, playwright, and short story writer and he is the author of the classic literature & fiction detective novel The Woman In White which was written in 1859. The Woman In White is considered to be among the first mystery novels and is widely regarded as one of the first and finest books in the genre of thriler & suspense novels. Wilkie Collins' The Woman In White centers on protagonist Walter Hartright employing many of the sleuthing techniques of later private detectives. The use of multiple narrators draws on Collins' legal training, and as he points out in the Preamble: the story here presented will be told by more than one pen, as the story of an offense against the laws is told in court by more than onee witnes. The Woman In White, whether or not categorized as a mystery novel, a thriller & suspense novel, or a British detective novel, it will forever be classified as a top 100 greatest classic novel in all of literature & fiction.