Hide and Seek Author:Wilkie Collins Wilkie Collins was an English novelist, poet, and playwright writing in the mid 19th century. His writing was very popular consisting of 27 novels, 50 short stories, 15 plays, and over 100 poems. His best-known works were The Woman in White, The Moonstone and Armadale. Hide and Seek is the story of an adopted deaf little girl and her adoptive... more » parents. The mystery revolves around the identity of her biological parents.« less