A review by badseedgirl
The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins

4.0

Edgar Allen Poe is credited with the first detective novel but after reading The Woman In White I feel this distinction belongs to it's author Wilkie Collins. Although his Protagonist is not a police officer or detective, her certainly fits this bill in this novel. I enjoyed the novel although a warning to future readers, the first epoch of the novel is very slow. It picks up in the the middle and towards the end. This was a well received and salacious novel for it's time, but seemed tame to me in present context. Still all and all, an excellent novel and after reading Dan Simmons Drood I'm glad I finally read something by Mr. Collins!