![]() 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. Eliot called it 'the first, the longest, and the best of modern English detective novels'. The book is widely regarded as the precursor of the modern mystery and suspense novels. The story concerns a young woman called Rachel Verinder who inherits a large Indian diamond, the Moonstone, on her eighteenth birthday. In this course, Dr Christopher Pittard (University of Portsmouth) explores Wilkie Collins 1868 novel The Moonstone. ![]() Born into the family of painter William Collins in London. ![]() His best-known works are The Woman in White (1859), No Name (1862), Armadale (1866), and The Moonstone (1868), considered the first modern English detective novel. Download cover art Download CD case insert The Moonstone William Wilkie Collins (8 January 1824 23 September 1889) was an English novelist, playwright, and short story writer. ![]()
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