num_pages: 283
description: Withdrawn, uneducated and unloved, Frederick collects butterflies and takes photographs. He is obsessed with a beautiful stranger, the art student Miranda. When he wins the pools he buys a remote Sussex house and calmly abducts Miranda, believing she will grow to love him in time.
language: English
title: The Collector
titlecomplete: The Collector
characters: Frederick Clegg, Miranda Grey
genres: Classics, British Literature, Mystery, Novels, Thriller, Literature, Fiction, Horror, Mystery Thriller, Crime
ratings_count: 76234
places: United Kingdom, London, England
publisher: Vintage