"I Say No"

by Wilkie Collins

Overview

When 18-year-old Emily meets Francine, a new schoolmate from the West Indies, she finds herself telling her the story of her father's death. The school-mistress approaches her, stating "I believe I knew him" and so begins Emily's desperate search to solve the mystery of her father's death.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781545231500
Publisher:	CreateSpace Publishing
Publication date:	04/08/2017
Pages:	442
Product dimensions:	5.98(w) x 9.02(h) x 0.90(d)

About the Author

William Wilkie Collins (8 January 1824 - 23 September 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.
Born into the family of painter William Collins in London, he lived with his family in Italy and France as a child and learned French and Italian. He worked as a clerk for a tea merchant. After his first novel, Antonina, was published in 1850, he met Charles Dickens, who became a close friend, mentor and collaborator. Some of Collins's works were first published in Dickens' journals All the Year Round and Household Words and the two collaborated on drama and fiction.
Collins published his best known works in the 1860s and achieved financial stability and an international reputation. During that time he began suffering from gout. After taking opium for the pain, he developed an addiction. During the 1870s and 1880s the quality of his writing declined along with his health.

Date of Birth:

December 8, 1824

Date of Death:

September 23, 1889

Place of Birth:

London, England

Place of Death:

London, England

Education:

Studied law at Lincoln¿s Inn, London