Publisher's Synopsis
Wilkie Collins was one of the leading English authors of the Victorian era. Collins was a prolific author and he is credited for writing the first modern detective novel in English literature. Collins was a good friend of Charles Dickens and they collaborated on several works. With classics such as The Woman in White, The Moonstone, No Name, and Armadale, he remains one of the most widely read authors today. The Guilty River is a novel that tells the story of a young man who returns to England after his father dies to collect his inheritance. While on an evening walk he runs into a childhood friend which sets off a drastic chain of events.
