The Complete Works of Wilkie Collins was an English novelist, playwright, and short story writer. This volume contains some of his mysterious stories. John Jago"s Ghost, is a novella based on the Boorn Brothers murder case. The Family Secret and Dream Woman are classic mysteries. And Mad Monkton is a bizarre ghost story. Collins"s works were classified at the time as "sensation novels", a genre seen nowadays as the precursor to detective and suspense fiction.