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|title=Wilkie Collins

|author=Peter Ackroyd

|publisher=Vintage

|date=March 2013

|summary=A 'brief life' of the Victorian writer, author of 'The Moonstone', often called the first true detective novel

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While Peter Ackroyd has published some extremely long books over the last few years, he has also been responsible for some commendably concise volumes as well. This life of the Victorian novelist is one of the latter, the latest in his series of ‘Brief Lives’, which have also included Chaucer, the painter Turner and [[Poe by Peter Ackroyd|Edgar Allan Poe]].