The Moonstone
Recommended by Jason Hall, and 1 others. See all reviewsRanked #18 in Victorian, Ranked #54 in Project Gutenberg — see more rankings.
"The Moonstone is a page-turner", writes Carolyn Heilbrun. "It catches one up and unfolds its amazing story through the recountings of its several narrators, all of them enticing and singular." Wilkie Collins’s spellbinding tale of romance, theft, and murder inspired a hugely popular genre–the detective mystery. Hinging on the theft of an enormous diamond originally stolen from an Indian shrine, this riveting novel features the innovative Sergeant Cuff, the hilarious house steward Gabriel Betteridge, a lovesick housemaid, and a mysterious band of Indian jugglers.
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Jason Hall Like The Woman in White, it’s one of the more famous novels by Collins. It’s another with several characters, lots of perspectives, a great mystery at the middle of it (Source)
Rankings by Category
The Moonstone is ranked in the following categories:
- #71 in Abstract
- #99 in Detective
- #67 in Gothic
- #95 in Mystery
- #70 in Penguin Classics
- #89 in Public Domain
- #83 in Whodunnit
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