![]() ![]() Each book features a brand new biography and glossary of Literary, Gothic and Victorian terms. Collins adapted The Moonstone for the stage in 1877. ![]() The story was serialised in Charles Dickens ’s magazine All the Year Round. It is an early example of the modern detective novel, and established many of the ground rules of the modern genre. Discover a storehouse of tales gathered specifically for the reader of the fantastic. The Moonstone (1868) by Wilkie Collins is a 19th-century British epistolary novel. Told from the viewpoints of various vivid characters, Collins spins a tale of intrigue with many a wrong-turn as the moonstone leaves a path of destruction in its wake.įLAME TREE 451: From mystery to crime, supernatural to horror and fantasy to science fiction, Flame Tree 451 offers a healthy diet of werewolves and mechanical men, blood-lusty vampires, dastardly villains, mad scientists, secret worlds, lost civilizations and escapist fantasies. ![]() When the stone goes missing, Sergeant Cuff is faced with a myriad of possible culprits, from mysterious Indian jugglers who may not be all they seem, to a very oddly acting maidservant. Rachel inherits the moonstone from her uncle on her 18th birthday, a cursed diamond of sacred importance stolen from India. Transported from the temples of India to atmospheric Victorian England, the scene is set for a tale which twists between death, drugs, mystery and, most of all, misdirection. A pacy tale from the original master of detective fiction Wilkie Collins. ![]() A thrilling tale of mystery and crime from a master storyteller. ![]()
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