The Woman in White

«The Woman in White» begins with a chilling encounter between Walter Hartwright and a mysterious woman dressed in white on a moonlit London road. Walter gets a position as a drawing teacher at the Fairlie estate; it seems that nothing can happen, but Walter becomes embroiled in sinister intrigues involving Sir Percival Glyde and his «charming» friend Count Fosco, a lover of white mice, vanilla sweets, and poison. Madness roams the halls of English country and insane houses...

This work is the first representative of the Victorian novel with elements of gothic, romanticism, and psychological realism.

Another great novel by Collins is «The Moonstone», which is often called the best detective story ever written, but it is the story of «The Woman in White» that so captivated the imagination of Wilkie Collins that on his gravestone, he requested to be inscribed: «Author of "The Woman in White" and other works».