Often called the first detective story, "The Woman in White" has thrilled readers for over a century. When Walter Hartright has a mysterious moonlit encounter with a woman dressed all in white, his world changes for ever. Engaged as a drawing master, he falls in love with Laura Fairlie, but before they can be united she must escape the clutches of the wicked Sir Percival Glyde and the deceptively charming and utterly sinister Count Fosco...

 

There are 320 pages in this book. This book was published 2007 by Walker Books Ltd .

Wilkie Collins (1824-1889) was a hugely popular English novelist, playwright and writer of short stories, best-known today for the groundbreaking The Woman in White, which has famously been adapted for the stage by Andrew Lloyd Webber. Jan Needle is a writer of children's books, plays, criticism, cartoons, TV programmes and a wide range of fiction for adults. He lives in Oldham and Manchester. Anatolii Slepkov is a Russian artist, a graduate of the Odessa Art College and the Repin Institute in St Petersburg. A member of the National Association of Portrait Artists of Great Britain, he is also a successful book illustrator, his titles including The Big Book of Pirates. Jan Needle is a well known children's writer. His novels include The Bully, My Mate Shofiq, Albeson and The Germans and A Game of Soldiers. Other plays by him include The Thief, A Game of Soldiers and The Rebels of Gas Street.