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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