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The Moonstone Wilkie Collins
Wilkie Collins
出版
CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
, 2017-01-04
主題
Literary Collections / General
ISBN
1542353556
9781542353557
URL
http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=xMtMMQAACAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
註釋
Widely regarded as the precursor of the modern mystery and suspense novels, The Moonstone tells of the events surrounding the disappearance of a mysterious (and cursed) yellow diamond. 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, including a crime being investigated by talented amateurs who happen to be present when it is committed, and two police officers who exemplify respectively the 'Scotland Yard bungler' and the skilled, professional detective.