The Moonstone
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We had our breakfasts--whatever happens in a house, robbery or murder, it doesn't matter, you must have your breakfast. Wilkie Collins, The Moonstone // Now, tell me, my dear, I said, what are you crying about?About the years that are gone, Mr. Betteredge," says Rosanna quietly. My past life still comes back to me sometimes.Come, come, my girl, I said, your past life is all sponged out. Why can't you forget it?"She took me by one of the lappets of my coat. I am a slovenly old man, and a good deal of my meat and drink gets splashed about on my clothes. Sometimes one of the women, and sometimes another, cleans me of my grease. The day before, Roseanna had taken out a spot for me on the lappet of my coat,... One after another, they were examined. One after another, they proved to have nothing to say--and said it (so far as the women were concerned) at great length... Wilkie Collins, The Moonstone //
4.5 stars, rounding up, for this 1868 Victorian-era mystery, often considered the first English-language detective novel. Wilkie Collins spins a literary web that starts out slowly but then inexorably pulls you in (I finished the last half of the book in one extended readathon), a gift for writing as vastly different characters, who... The Moonstone was published in 1868 and is considered by most people to be the first detective novel. Given the novels place in the history of the genre, that alone should put this book on most people's reading lists. To sweeten the pot, the plot is compelling, the last hundred pages I couldn't have put the book down for anything. I... Mr Betteridge would be very disappointed in me as I have never read Robinson Crusoe and I should have read this book long since.It was wonderfully crafted and put together with delicious twists and turns. So many characters and situations, yet you care for the characters. They are delightful and even the villains are not truly villainous....
