A great book by Wilkie Collins. I read everywhere that this book is the first detective story ever written. Well, true or not, it is a good one, especially if one realizes that Collins apparently did not have any example to follow. The book is written as if it is being told by several of the main ch...
The one word which comes to mind when I think of this novel is mesmerising. Slow and steady in its pace, the suspense builds almost inperceptibly until it becomes a page turner. I love the technique of using different narrators and I love how my perception of characters underwent shifts as those cha...
Thank *GOD* I'm done with this book! I agree with all the other people who have given this one and two stars. I thought the story was unnecessarily long, huge chunks of it were so boring I was counting how many pages were left until I was done (always too many left), and the frequent changes in na...
Considered by many to be the first detective story in the English language, The Moonstone is the story of the theft of a fabulously valuable diamond, first from India where it was considered to be an immensely sacred object, and then from a young heiress in Yorkshire. It is told by a series of narra...
What I really want to do here is an investigation of the missing pizza murder - UK readers will know the one - in Wilkie Collins style. But even if I were good enough to do that, I'd have to read one of the books again because I last read it when I was about eight along with all the other murder mys...
This is the perfect combination of Victorian lit combined with a good mystery. The story is based on a valuable moonstone that was part of the headpiece of a Hindu idol. A British soldier steals it from India and brings it, and its associated curse, back to England. He bequeaths it to his niece o...
A re-read of a re-read! And why not!?Illegitimacy, mistaken identity, insanity, inheritance, drugs, adultery, crimes of passion—all of these lurid features of Victorian life were Wilkie Collins's stock in trade. In The Moonstone he single-handedly developed most elements of the classic detective sto...
I love this book and have read it approximately 3 times...I never tire of it. Wilkie Collins, in my opinion, was an author before his time. Yet, his works are timeless!
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