by Wilkie Collins · Penguin Classics · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780140430141
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«The Moonstone» is the mystery novel by Wilkie Collins, published by Penguin Classics in paperback (528 pages, in English).
The work revolves around the theft of the Moonstone diamond, a yellow jewel inherited by Rachel Verinder from her uncle, Colonel Herncastle. The gem disappears during Rachel's birthday party, and Sergeant Cuff investigates among relatives, servants, and some Indian jugglers. The accounts of those involved sow suspicion and twists.
Work originally published in 1868; the Penguin Classics edition is edited by J.I.M. Stewart.
Recommended for readers of Victorian novels and mystery classics, especially for those who enjoy investigations narrated through multiple testimonies.
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.
