The Moonstone by Wilkie Collins is a 19th-century British epistolary novel.
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10 Facts About The Moonstone
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The Moonstone's wears the Moonstone on her dress that evening for all to see, including some Indian jugglers who have called at the house.
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The Moonstone first discovers that Rosanna Spearman's behaviour was due to her having fallen in love with him.
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The Moonstone's found evidence that convinced her that he was the thief and concealed it to save him, confusing the trail of evidence and throwing suspicion on herself.
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However, The Moonstone introduced 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.
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The Moonstone has been described as perhaps the earliest police procedural, due to the portrayal of Cuff.
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The Moonstone represents Collins's only complete reprisal of the popular "multi-narration" method that he had previously used to great effect in The Woman in White.
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On 11 March 1945 "The Moonstone" was episode number 67 of the U S radio series The Weird Circle.
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On 16 November and 23 November 1953, "The Moonstone", starring Peter Lawford, was broadcast as a two-part episode of the U S radio drama "Suspense".
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In 1996 The Moonstone was made for television by the BBC and Carlton Television in partnership with WGBH of Boston, Massachusetts, airing again on Masterpiece Theatre.
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