"appeared on the staircase leading to Tulkinghorn's office that night, some of them in disguise, and Inspector Bucket must penetrate these mysteries to identify the murderer. Dickens also left a novel unfinished at his death, ""The Mystery of Edwin Drood"". Dickens's protégé, Wilkie Collins (1824–1889)—sometimes referred to as the ""grandfather of English detective fiction""—is credited with the first great mystery novel, ""The Woman in White"". T. S. Eliot called Collins's novel ""The Moonstone"" (1868) ""the first, the longest, and the best of modern English detective novels... in a genre invented by Collins and not by Poe"", and Dorothy L. Sayers"
"The Moonstone (1909 film) The Moonstone is a 1909 silent film produced by William Nicholas Selig and released by Selig Polyscope Company. This film has a great chance of being a lost film; no sources indicate if any copies have existed. It is also unknown who starred in this film or who directed it. This film was based on the British three volume novel (a standard of the time in Britain and England to separate a novel in three volumes) ""The Moonstone"" published in 1868 and which is highly regarded as one of the first English language detective crime novels."
"called it ""probably the very finest detective story ever written"". ""The Moonstone"" contains a number of ideas that have established in the genre several classic features of the 20th century detective story: Although ""The Moonstone"" is usually seen as the first detective novel, there are other contenders for the honor. A number of critics suggest that the lesser known ""Notting Hill Mystery"" (1862–63), written by the pseudonymous ""Charles Felix"" (later identified as Charles Warren Adams), preceded it by a number of years and first used techniques that would come to define the genre. Literary critics Chris Willis and Kate Watson"
"Woman in White"" and ""The Moonstone"" share an unusual narrative structure, somewhat resembling an epistolary novel, in which different portions of the book have different narrators, each with a distinct narrative voice. ""Armadale"" has this to a lesser extent through the correspondence between some characters. Wilkie Collins William Wilkie Collins (8 January 1824 – 23 September 1889) was an English novelist, playwright, and short story writer. His best-known works are ""The Woman in White"" (1859), ""No Name"" (1862), ""Armadale"" (1866) and ""The Moonstone"" (1868). The last is considered the first modern English detective novel. Born into the family of painter"
"story by English novelist Sarah Burney: for example, the return of a childhood companion, the sexual symbolism of defloration implied in the crime, and almost catatonic reactions of the heroine to it. But ""The Moonstone"" introduces a number of the elements that became classic attributes of the twentieth-century detective story in novel form, as opposed to Poe's short story form. These include: Franklin Blake, the gifted amateur, is an early example of the gentleman detective. The highly competent Sergeant Cuff, the London policeman called in from Scotland Yard (whom Collins based on the real-life Inspector Jonathan Whicher who solved the"
"whose success on the competitive Victorian literary market had been gradually waning in the wake of his first perceived masterpiece. Viewed by many to represent the advent of the detective story within the tradition of the English novel, ""The Moonstone"" remains one of Collins's most critically acclaimed productions, identified by T. S. Eliot as ""the first, the longest, and the best of modern English detective novels... in a genre invented by Collins and not by Poe,"" and Dorothy L. Sayers referred to it as ""probably the very finest detective story ever written"". After ""The Moonstone,"" Collins's novels contained fewer thriller"
"This film was remade in 1915; the oldest known version to exist. Other remakes were released in 1934, 1972, and 1997. The Moonstone (1909 film) The Moonstone is a 1909 silent film produced by William Nicholas Selig and released by Selig Polyscope Company. This film has a great chance of being a lost film; no sources indicate if any copies have existed. It is also unknown who starred in this film or who directed it. This film was based on the British three volume novel (a standard of the time in Britain and England to separate a novel in three"
"Wilkie Collins William Wilkie Collins (8 January 1824 – 23 September 1889) was an English novelist, playwright, and short story writer. His best-known works are ""The Woman in White"" (1859), ""No Name"" (1862), ""Armadale"" (1866) and ""The Moonstone"" (1868). The last is considered the first modern English detective novel. Born into the family of painter William Collins in London, he lived with his family in Italy and France as a child and learned French and Italian. He worked as a clerk for a tea merchant. After his first novel, ""Antonina,"" was published in 1850, he met Charles Dickens, who became"
"gathering evidence, search warrants, interrogation and adherence to legal restrictions and procedure. The roots of the police procedural have been traced to at least the mid-1880s. Wilkie Collins's novel ""The Moonstone"" (1868), a tale of a Scotland Yard detective investigating the theft of a valuable diamond, has been described as perhaps the earliest clear example of the genre. As detective fiction rose to worldwide popularity in the late 1800s and early 1900s, many of the pioneering and most popular characters, at least in the English-speaking world, were private investigators or amateurs. See C. Auguste Dupin, Sherlock Holmes, Sam Spade, Miss"
"in the Rue Morgue (1841) and The Purloined Letter (1845) were published before ""The Moonstone"". Also, a number of critics suggest that Charles Felix's (pseudonym for Charles Warren Adams) lesser known ""Notting Hill Mystery"" (1862–63) preceded ""The Moonstone"" by a number of years and first used techniques that came to define the genre. In 1934, the book was made into a critically acclaimed American film, ""The Moonstone"" by Monogram Pictures Corporation. Adapted to the screen by Adele S. Buffington, the film was directed by Reginald Barker and starred David Manners, Charles Irwin, and Phyllis Barry. On 11 March 1945, ""The"
"novel ""The Woman in White"" was published in 1860, while ""The Moonstone"" (1868) is often thought to be his masterpiece. French author Émile Gaboriau's ""Monsieur Lecoq"" (1868) laid the groundwork for the methodical, scientifically minded detective. The evolution of locked room mysteries was one of the landmarks in the history of crime fiction. The Sherlock Holmes mysteries of Arthur Conan Doyle are said to have been singularly responsible for the huge popularity in this genre. A precursor was Paul Féval, whose series ""Les Habits Noirs"" (1862–67) features Scotland Yard detectives and criminal conspiracies. The best-selling crime novel of the nineteenth"
"the Herncastle Moonstone, a valuable diamond from India. The film was made by Monogram Studios, one of the smaller Hollywood outfits often known collectively as Poverty Row. The adaptation of a prestigious British Victorian novel marked a break from their usual films which were generally cheaply made American-set Westerns. To fit the story into a limited running time, large amounts of the original novel are dropped from the adaptation. The Moonstone (1934 film) The Moonstone is a 1934 American mystery film directed by Reginald Barker and starring David Manners, Phyllis Barry, Gustav von Seyffertitz and Jameson Thomas. It is an"
"be Edgar Allan Poe's ""The Murders in the Rue Morgue"" (1841). Wilkie Collins' ""The Moonstone"" (1868) features a rudimentary locked-room murder. A number of authors, including Joseph Conrad, Sheridan Le Fanu, and Dick Donovan, tried their hand at the new genre, but their ingenuity extended only to secret passages, duplicate keys, and diabolical mechanical devices. It was not until publication of Israel Zangwill's work ""The Big Bow Mystery"" (1892) that the hallmark of every great impossible crime—""misdirection""—made its appearance, introducing a murder technique much emulated since. The other great early work, ""Le Mystère de la Chambre Jaune"" (""The Mystery of"
"Rachel Verinder Rachel Verinder is a character in Wilkie Collins' 1868 novel ""The Moonstone"". Despite being the heroine, the story is never related from her viewpoint, as it is in turn from the other main protagonists, leaving her character always seen from the outside. A somewhat spoilt and self-reliant girl, Rachel is in love with her cousin Frankin Blake. P. D. James saw her as one of the examples of Collins' rare (Victorian) ability to depict women capable of real desire: With her temper, insistence on making her own decisions, and readiness to grapple with the social implications of her"
"Ezra Jennings Ezra Jennings is a character, and part-narrator, in Wilkie Collins' 1868 novel ""The Moonstone"". Ill-favoured, and of ill repute, he is ultimately responsible for solving the mystery of the Moonstone's theft, and so for reuniting the hero with the heroine, Rachel Verinder. Walking with Dickens in the Lake District, Collins sprained his ankle, and was much struck by the appearance of the doctor's assistant treating him: ""a startling object to look at, with his colourless face, his sunken cheeks, his wild black eyes, and his long black hair"". He used him as the basis for a series of"
"novel The Moonstone of Wilkie Collins. Sir David Baird, 1st Baronet General Sir David Baird, 1st Baronet GCB (6 December 1757 – 18 August 1829) was a British military leader. He was born at Newbyth House in Haddingtonshire, Scotland, the son of an Edinburgh merchant family, and entered the British Army in 1772. He was sent to India in 1779 with the 73rd (afterwards 71st) Highlanders, in which he was a captain. Immediately on his arrival, Baird was attached to the force commanded by Sir Hector Munro, which was sent forward to assist the detachment of Colonel Baillie, threatened by"
"who had attended Thackeray when suffered a life-threatening illness in 1849. Elliotson was a friend of Charles Dickens, and introduced Dickens to Mesmerism. Wilkie Collins, a close friend of Dickens described Elliotson as ""one of the greatest English physiologists,"" and cites an example of state-dependent memory from Elliotson's ""Human Physiology"" in ""The Moonstone."" Elliotson is a major antagonist in the game "","" who performs brutal and fatal experiments on the insane at Lambeth Asylum and is a secret member of the Templar Order. He is later killed by the Master Assassin Jacob Frye. John Elliotson John Elliotson (29 October 1791"
"He lives in Paris with his close friend, the anonymous narrator of the stories. Like the much later Lord Peter Wimsey (see below), Dupin is a bibliophile, and met his narrator friend while both were searching for ""the same rare and very remarkable volume"" in an obscure library. For hobbies, Dupin is ""fond"" of enigmas, conundrums, and hieroglyphics. Dupin also bears the French title ""Chevalier"", meaning that he is a knight in the Légion d'honneur. The classic British gentleman detective appears soon after Poe's Dupin. A gentleman amateur is the ultimate hero of ""The Moonstone"" (1868), a famous epistolary novel"
"be said of ""The Hermitage"", but here the marrying of an earlier story and an ending composed later seems more visible, so that some of the momentum of the story is lost after the murder, partly due to the introduction of a distractingly comic character, a spinster-companion, who has been compared with the prolix Miss Bates in Jane Austen's ""Emma"" (1815). Several aspects of the story recur in Wilkie Collins' ""The Moonstone"" (1868), a seminal work in the development of the murder mystery: the return of a childhood companion, the sexual symbolism of defloration implied in the crime, and the"
"passion for a man she thinks of as a thief, Rachel has been seen as a prototype of the New Woman, as anticipated in the sensation novel. ""The Moonstone"" has often been portrayed in film. In the 1934 adaption, Phyllis Barry appears as Rachel (or Ann Verinder, as she was therein called). Rachel Verinder Rachel Verinder is a character in Wilkie Collins' 1868 novel ""The Moonstone"". Despite being the heroine, the story is never related from her viewpoint, as it is in turn from the other main protagonists, leaving her character always seen from the outside. A somewhat spoilt and"
"1843 on the question of the gates of the temple and Ellenbourough's role in the affair. After much crossfire between the British Government and the opposition, all of the facts as we know them were laid out. In the 19th century novel ""The Moonstone"" by Wilkie Collins, the diamond of the title is presumed to have been stolen from the temple at Somnath and, according to the historian Romila Thapar, reflects the interest aroused in Britain by the gates. Before independence, Prabhas Patan was part of the Junagadh State, whose ruler had acceded to Pakistan in 1947. After India refused"
"Lloyd Bloch Nefarius (Lloyd Bloch), previously known as Moonstone, is a fictional supervillain appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. He first appeared in ""Captain America"" #169 (1974) and was created by Steve Englehart, Mike Friedrich and Sal Buscema. As Moonstone, Lloyd Bloch was an agent of the second Secret Empire and its front organization, the Committee to Regain America's Principles (C.R.A.P.), set up by them to discredit Captain America and take his place as America's ""symbolic"" hero. The Empire had previously damaged Cap's reputation by accusing him of vigilantism and framing him for the death of small-time"
"to recovering it. Rachel's eighteenth birthday is celebrated with a large party, at which the guests include her cousin Franklin Blake. She wears the Moonstone on her dress that evening for all to see, including some Indian jugglers who have called at the house. Later that night, the diamond is stolen from Rachel's bedroom, and a period of turmoil, unhappiness, misunderstandings and ill-luck ensues in a complex plot to explain the theft, identify the thief, trace the stone and recover it. The Moonstone (miniseries) The Moonstone is a daytime drama series produced by King Bert Productions for BBC 1 Daytime."
"times in his subsequent novel ""The Moonstone"", and wanted to explore the area where the character was initially shipwrecked. The author and communist Sylvia Townsend Warner, one of the Bright Young Things of the 1920s, frequently stayed with Valentine Ackland at Hill House and they both wrote poetry inspired by the Winterton beach and dunes. From the mid 1950s to the early 1970s Leslie Davenport, a member of the Norwich Twenty Group of painters, led up to 200 artists, writers and musicians living on the beach and dunes for six weeks every summer. In 1956, at 78 years old, the"
"Wolfstein (book) Wolfstein; or, The Mysterious Bandit is an 1822 chapbook based on Percy Bysshe Shelley’s 1811 Gothic horror novel ""St. Irvyne; or, The Rosicrucian"". The 1811 novel ""St. Irvyne, or, The Rosicrucian"" was republished by John Joseph Stockdale in 1822 following Shelley’s death. Two chapbooks were also published based on the novel. No publication date appeared on the title page. The first chapbook version was entitled ""Wolfstein; or, The Mysterious Bandit"" and was published and printed by John Bailey at 116, Chancery Lane in London in 1822. The chapbook was a condensed version of the novel in 20 pages."
"George MacDonald, the influential author of ""The Princess and the Goblin"" and ""Phantastes"" (1858). Wilkie Collins' epistolary novel ""The Moonstone"" (1868), is generally considered the first detective novel in the English language. Robert Louis Stevenson (1850–1894) was an important Scottish writer at the end of the nineteenth century, author of ""Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde"" (1886), and the historical novel ""Kidnapped"" (1886). H.G. Wells's (1866–1946) writing career began in the 1890s with science fiction novels like ""The Time Machine"" (1895), and ""The War of the Worlds"" (1898) which describes an invasion of late Victorian England by Martians,"
"Moonstone"" was episode number 67 of the radio series, ""The Weird Circle"". On 15 April 1947, an adaptation of ""The Moonstone"" was episode #47 of the NBC radio series ""Favorite Story"" hosted by Ronald Colman. On 16 November and 23 November 1953, ""The Moonstone"", starring Peter Lawford, was broadcast in a 2-part episode of the radio drama ""Suspense"". In 1959, the BBC adapted the novel into a television serial starring James Hayter. In 1972 it was remade in the United Kingdom, featuring Robin Ellis, and aired in the United States on PBS's ""Masterpiece Theatre"". In 1974 a German version was"
"suspicions of Detective Inspector Jack Whicher of Scotland Yard moved to the boy's 16-year-old half-sister, Constance. She was arrested on 16 July but released without trial owing to public opinion against the accusations of a working class detective against a young lady of breeding. This difference in class was used as subplot by Wilkie Collins in his detective novel ""The Moonstone"" (1868). After the investigation collapsed, the Kent family moved to Wrexham in the north of Wales and sent Constance to a finishing school in Dinan, France. She was prosecuted for the murder five years later, in 1865. She made"
"he was on his way to Amsterdam to have the stone cut; it would then have been sold to replenish the plundered trust fund before the beneficiary inherited. The mystery is solved, Rachel and Franklin marry, and in an epilogue from Mr. Murthwaite, a noted adventurer, the reader learns of the restoration of the Moonstone to the place where it should be, in the forehead of the statue of the god in India. The book is regarded by some as the precursor of the modern mystery novel and suspense novels. T. S. Eliot called it ""the first, the longest, and"
"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"
"Wolfstein, the Murderer Wolfstein, The Murderer; or, The Secrets of a Robber’s Cave is an 1850 chapbook based on Percy Bysshe Shelley’s 1811 Gothic horror novel ""St. Irvyne; or, The Rosicrucian"". The 1811 novel ""St. Irvyne, or, The Rosicrucian"" was republished by John Joseph Stockdale in 1822 following Shelley’s death. Two chapbooks were also published based on the novel. No publication date appeared on the title page. The first chapbook version was entitled ""Wolfstein; or, The Mysterious Bandit"" and was published and printed by John Bailey at 116, Chancery Lane in London in 1822. The chapbook was a condensed version"
"Godfrey Ablewhite Godfrey Ablewhite is a character in Wilkie Collins' 1868 novel ""The Moonstone"". A vocal philanthropist, he is one of the rival suitors of Rachel Verinder, to whom he is briefly engaged (before his mercenary motives begin gradually to be uncovered). Godfrey is explicitly and repeatedly linked to Exeter Hall, site of the most theatrical elements in evangelical preaching: ""Exeter Hall again...the performance with the tongue"". His unmasking as the villain of the piece has therefore been taken by some as a literal demonstration on the author's part of the hypocrisy inherent in sermonising - the gap between words"
"The Touchstone The Touchstone is a novel, written by Edith Wharton in 1905; it was the first of her many stories describing life in old New York. Stephen Glennard, the novel’s protagonist, is suddenly impoverished and unable to marry the woman he loves. He sells the private letters a former admirer had written to him, before she had become a famous author. He is later overcome by guilt for betraying one who had loved him. Stephen Glennard's career is falling apart and he desperately needs money so that he may marry his beautiful fiancee. He happens upon an advertisement in"