Moonstone

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By Listen TheBook Posted on May 30, 2023

In Category - Detective Fiction

Authors: Wilkie Collins In Year : 1868

Book Language: English

Audiobook: Moonstone

Prologue
First Period: Chapter 1
First Period: Chapter 2
First Period: Chapter 3
First Period: Chapter 4
First Period: Chapter 5
First Period: Chapter 6
First Period: Chapter 7
First Period: Chapter 8
First Period: Chapter 9
First Period: Chapter 10
First Period: Chapter 11
First Period: Chapter 12
First Period: Chapter 13
First Period: Chapter 14
First Period: Chapter 15
First Period: Chapter 16
First Period: Chapter 17
First Period: Chapter 18
First Period: Chapter 19
First Period: Chapter 20
First Period: Chapter 21
First Period: Chapter 22
First Period: Chapter 23
Second Period: First Narrative I
Second Period: First Narrative II
Second Period: First Narrative III
Second Period: First Narrative IV
Second Period: First Narrative V
Second Period: First Narrative VI & VII
Second Period: First Narrative VIII
Second Period: Second Narrative I
Second Period: Second Narrative II & III
Second Period: Third Narrative I & II
Second Period: Third Narrative III
Second Period: Third Narrative IV
Second Period: Third Narrative V
Second Period: Third Narrative VI
Second Period: Third Narrative VII
Second Period: Third Narrative VIII
Second Period: Third Narrative IX
Second Period: Third Narrative X
Second Period: Fourth Narrative Part 1
Second Period: Fourth Narrative Part 2
Second Period: Fourth Narrative Part 3
Second Period: Fifth Narrative
Second Period: Sixth Narrative
Second Period: Seventh and Eighth Narratives; Epilogue

The story concerns a young woman called Rachel Verinder who inherits a large Indian diamond, the Moonstone, on her eighteenth birthday.

The book is widely regarded as the precursor of the modern mystery and suspense novels. T. S. Eliot called it 'the first, the longest, and the best of modern English detective novels'. It contains a number of ideas which became common tropes of the genre: a large number of suspects, red herrings, a crime being investigated by talented amateurs who happen to be present when it is committed, and two police officers who exemplify respectively the 'local bungler' and the skilled, professional, Scotland Yard detective. (Summary from Wikipedia)