Who wrote the novel 'The Moonstone'?
The Moonstone The Moonstone The Moonstone (1868) by Wilkie Collins is a 19th-century British epistolary novel. It is generally considered to be the first detective novel, and it established many of the ground rules of the modern detective novel. The story was originally serialised in Charles Dickens' magazine "All the Year Round". "The Moonstone" and "The Woman in White" are widely considered to be Collins' best novels, and Collins adapted "The Moonstone" for the stage in 1877, although the production was performed for only two months. The Moonstone of the title is a diamond, not to be confused with the semi-precious moonstone
The Moonstone delusions, the most notable being his conviction that he was constantly accompanied by a doppelganger whom he dubbed "Ghost Wilkie". It was Collins's last great success, coming at the end of an extraordinarily productive period which saw four successive novels become best-sellers. After "The Moonstone", he wrote novels containing more overt social commentary which did not achieve the same audience. A heavily fictionalised account of Collins' life while writing "The Moonstone" forms much of the plot of Dan Simmons' 2009 novel "Drood". "Moonstone" is often seen as the first detective novel, although Edgar Allan Poe's short story mysteries The Murders