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The Moonstone (book)
- Author: Wilkie Collins
- As Noted In: 1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die, B E S Publishing
- As Noted In: Notable Novels and Novellas, Phantom
- Ranked 8th, The Top 100 Crime Novels of All Time, Crime Writers' Association
- Ranked 7th, The Top 100 Mystery Novels of All Time, Mystery Writers of America
The originally serialized in Charles Dickens' magazine All the Year Round, The Moonstone by Wilkie Collins is a 19th-century British epistolary novel, generally considered the first full length detective novel in the English language. In the locked-room mystery, Rachel Verinder's cursed Indian diamond the Moonstone disappears from her room after her birthday party. - AsNotedIn
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| Y/M/D | Association | Description | Place | Locale | Food | Event | |
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| 1868/00/00 | Wilkie Collins | Author | The Moonstone - published | ||||
| 1868/00/00 | Tinsley Brothers | Publisher | The Moonstone - published |
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| Particulars for The Moonstone (book): | |||
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| Art Type | Book | a written or printed work consisting of pages glued or sewn together along one side and bound in covers. | |
| Crime | Crime | ||
| Narrative Arts | Detective | a person, especially a police officer, whose occupation is to investigate and solve crimes. | |
| Employment | Domestic Worker | ||
| Narrative Arts | Fiction | prose literature, especially short stories and novels, that describes imaginary events and people | |
| Narrative Arts | Locked Room Mystery | crime is committed where it was seemingly impossible for the perpetrator to commit the crime in the course of getting in and out of the crime scene | |
| Stone | Moonstone | a pearly white semiprecious stone, especially one consisting of alkali feldspar | |
| Narrative Arts | Mystery | something not understood or beyond understanding | |
| Narrative Arts | Narrative | an account of connected events | |
| Art Type | Novel | long form fiction narrative that is at least 40,000 words in length | |
| Narrative Arts | Prose | ordinary written language | |
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| Original Language: | English | ||
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