![]() ![]() ![]() Wilkie Collins's spellbinding tale of romance, theft, and murder inspired a hugely popular genre, the detective mystery. "It catches one up and unfolds its amazing story through the recountings of its several narrators, all of them enticing and singular." "The Moonstone is a page-turner," writes Carolyn Heilbrun. TS Eliot claimed that the genre was "invented by Collins and not by Poe", declaring it to be "the first, the longest and the best of modern English detective novels".ĭorothy L Sayers, a queen of crime in the 1930s and 40s, pronounced it "probably the finest detective story ever written". The novels is often said to be the godfather of the classic English detective story. The Hound's 1868 book of the year helped to shape the future of crime fiction. ![]()
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