The Moonstone

Name: The Moonstone
Author: Wilkie Collins

by Wilkie Collins

Detective novel centred on the theft and recovery of an Indian diamond

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Wilkie Collins

Wilkie Collins was a Victorian sensation novelist who created two of the first detective novels in English literature, The Woman in White and The Moonstone. His complex, multi-narrator structure and tightly plotted mysteries were enormously influential on the detective fiction tradition. He was a close friend and collaborator of Charles Dickens.

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