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The 1860s saw Collins' creative high-point, and it was during this decade that he achieved fame and critical acclaim, with his four major novels, The Woman in White (1860), No Name (1862), Armadale (1866) and The Moonstone (1868). The Moonstone, meanwhile is seen by many as the first true detective novel - T. S. Eliot called it the first, the longest, and the best of modern English detective novels.in a genre invented by Collins and not by Poe. Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900's and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. 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