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The book is now generally regarded as the first sensation novel, an influential genre of Victorian-era fiction a precursor of modern genre of detective fiction -- which fused the apprehensive thrills of Gothic literature with the psychological realism of the domestic novel There were a number of elements that enabled Collins to achieve this
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