William Wilkie Collins is a classic of English literature of the 19th century, who went down in history as the founder of modern detective literature. The novels “The Woman in White” and “The Moonstone” that made Collins famous, published in the magazine of his friend Charles Dickens, literally drove the whole of Europe crazy. The key to the success of Collins's works, from whose pen twenty-three novels and four collections of short stories and novellas were published, was the combination of various genres: the writer - a master of intrigue and fascinating plot - skillfully combined melodrama, detective and moral narrative in his books, generously seasoning them with elements gothic novel. This edition offers readers a wonderful example of the writer’s style—Wilkie Collins’s mystery-filled story “The Yellow Mask.”