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New Crime & Mystery Fiction Titles From Dover Pubns OCT-DEC 2002
Wilkie Collins The Moonstone Pbk published October 2002 by Dover Pubns at £3.00 ISBN: 0486424510


The Moonstone can claim to be the greatest English detective story ever written - but offers many other facets, which reveal Collins's sensibilities as untypical of his era. The mystery reflects on the Victorian obsession with virginity. His women and servants - like the luckless Rosanna - are capable of anger and passion. Collins derides both the class system and British imperialism. Finally, the uses and seductions of drugs permeate the story, until facts, identities and the narrative itself become question marks.
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