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    The Moonstone
    The Moonstone
    The Moonstone
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    The Moonstone

    Written by Wilkie Collins

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    The story concerns a young woman called Rachel Verinder who inherits a large Indian diamond, the Moonstone, on her eighteenth birthday.

    The book is widely regarded as the precursor of the modern mystery and suspense novels. T. S. Eliot called it 'the first, the longest, and the best of modern English detective novels'. It contains a number of ideas which became common tropes of the genre: a large number of suspects, red herrings, a crime being investigated by talented amateurs who happen to be present when it is committed, and two police officers who exemplify respectively the 'local bungler' and the skilled, professional, Scotland Yard detective. (Summary from Wikipedia)

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherLibriVox
    Release dateAug 25, 2014
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    Wilkie Collins

    William Wilkie Collins (1824–1889) was an English novelist, playwright, and author of short stories. He wrote 30 novels, more than 60 short stories, 14 plays, and more than 100 essays. His best-known works are The Woman in White and The Moonstone.

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      I started this book with some trepidation given its length and the historical period in which it was written. However I was quickly immersed in the story and found myself wishing it would never end. As other reviewers have pointed out, every feature of a modern mystery is here . The author has a wonderful sense of humor, and the characters are well developed. I particularly love reading something actually written in the middle of the nineteenth century and seeing that people weren't so very different then.