T.S. Eliot called The Moonstone “the first, the longest, and the best of modern English detective novels.” Its multi-narrator format allows us to assess the evidence piecemeal, almost like a jury hears testimony, in order to solve the mystery, and along the way to recognize the elements that Collins introduced that have come to define the detective story we know today.
Book Author
Building
MAI
Instructor
Carol MacKay
Instructor URL
http://www.utexas.edu/cola/depts/english/faculty/mackaych
Department
English
Department URL
http://www.utexas.edu/cola/depts/english/
Room
220E
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