Name: Mr Wray's Cash Box (Christmas Mystery Series): From the prolific English writer, best known for The Woman in White, Armadale, The Moonstone and The De
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Author: Collins, Wilkie
ISBN: 9788026892359

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Mr Wray's Cash Box (Christmas Mystery Series): From the prolific English writer, best known for The Woman in White, Armadale, The Moonstone and The De

Type

Physical Book

Author

Wilkie Collins

Publisher

E-Artnow

Language

English

Pages

Format

Paperback

Dimensions

22.9 x 15.2 x 0.3 cm

Weight

0.09 kg.

ISBN13

9788026892359

Synopsis "Mr Wray's Cash Box (Christmas Mystery Series): From the prolific English writer, best known for The Woman in White, Armadale, The Moonstone and The De"

Reuben Wray is a retired stage actor whose most valuable possession is a mask of Shakespeare which he guards obsessively in his cash box, attracting thieves towards the box. Upon the theft of his sole possession it is upto his grand-daugter to bring back the lost happiness of his dear old grand-father and make his Christmas worthwhile again. A heartening Christmas mystery read! Wilkie Collins (1824-1889) was an English novelist, playwright, and short story writer. His best-known works are The Woman in White (1859), No Name (1862), Armadale (1866) and The Moonstone (1868). The last is considered the first modern English detective novel.

Wilkie Collins

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(London 1824-1889) Playwright, novelist, and prolific short story writer. At 17, he started working at a tea trading company while writing Ioláni, or Tahiti as it was (Gothic no. 32), a work that was not published until over a century after his death. He studied Law and, although he never practiced, he did use his legal knowledge in many of his works, and critics consider him one of the fathers of the detective genre. In 1851, he met Charles Dickens, with whom he formed a deep friendship and published his main works in his weekly All the Year Around. After Dickens' death in 1870, his popularity waned. He suffered from rheumatic gout which eventually led to an opium addiction. His tombstone epitaph highlights him as the author of the novel The Woman in White.

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