by Wilkie Collins · Verticales · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788496694743
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«La piedra lunar» is the detective novel by Wilkie Collins, published by Verticales in paperback (664 pages, in Spanish).
Stolen from the statue of a Hindu god by an English officer, the diamond known as the Moonstone reaches his niece's hands years later. When the jewel disappears, the mystery is reconstructed through the testimonies of the witnesses, each with their own version, in a structure that made this work a precursor of the detective novel.
Volume in the Biblioteca Wilkie Collins collection. Originally published as The Moonstone in 1868, this Spanish edition received the Euskadi Literature Prize for translation in 2009.
For lovers of classic mystery, the Victorian novel, and those who want to discover the origins of the detective genre.
William Wilkie Collins was an English novelist and playwright known especially for The Woman in White (1860), a mystery novel and early sensation novel, and for The Moonstone (1868), which established many of the ground rules of the modern detective novel and is also perhaps the earliest clear example of the police procedural genre.
