Crime Writers of the Canadian Plains

Crime Writers from Alberta surf the Coastal Crime Wave at Bloody Words 2011.
With support from the Alberta Foundation for the Arts, Anne and Jayne profile the authors, the books, the panels and the people at Canada's only national crime writers convention.

Sunday, June 5, 2011

The Moonstone - Wilkie Collins

The Moonstone
Wilkie Collins
Edited by Steve Farmer

Intrigue, investigations, thievery, drugs, and murder all make an appearance in Wilkie Collins’ classic whodunit, The Moonstone. (it) .  Published in serial form in 1868, it was inspired in part by a spectacular murder case widely reported in the early 1860’s. Collins’ story revolves around a diamond stolen from a Hindu holy place. On her 18th birthday, Rachel Verinder receives the diamond, but by the following morning the stone has been stolen again. As the story unravels through multiple eye-witness accounts, the elderly Sergeant Cuff – with a face “sharp as a hatchet” – looks for the culprit.”

(The play appears as an appendix to that edition)

Donated by Broadview Press

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