The Moonstone

The Moonstone

by Wilkie Collins
Epub (Kobo), Epub (Adobe)
Publication Date: 27/11/2024

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"The Moonstone" is a detective novel by English writer Wilkie Collins, first published in 1868. This work is considered one of the first detective novels in English and has all the characteristic features of the genre, such as a mysterious crime, many suspects, a consequence and an unexpected denouement. The plot of the book revolves around an ancient Indian gemstone known as the Moonstone, which was stolen and brought to England. The stone ends up in the hands of a young girl, Rachel Verinder, who receives it as a gift for her eighteenth birthday. However, that same night, the jewel disappears from her room, after which an investigation begins. Feel like a real English detective. Become a participant in the investigation presented in English, without adaptations and abbreviations!

ISBN:
9785171701642
9785171701642
Category:
Crime & mystery
Format:
Epub (Kobo), Epub (Adobe)
Publication Date:
27-11-2024
Language:
English
Wilkie Collins

William Wilkie Collins was born in London in 1824, the son of a successful and popular painter. On leaving school, he worked in the office of a tea merchant in the Strand before reading law as a student at Lincoln's Inn. However his real passion was for writing and, in 1850, he published his first novel, Antonina.

In 1851, the same year that he was called to the bar, he met and established a lifelong friendship with Charles Dickens. While Collins' fame rests on his best known works, The Woman in White and The Moonstone, he wrote over thirty books, as well as numerous short stories, articles and plays. He was a hugely popular writer in his lifetime. An unconventional individual, he never married but established long-term liaisons with two separate partners. He died in 1889.

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