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Available at LibriVox. What a splendid book, I prefer it compared with The Woman in White.
This book is widely acknowledged to be the first mystery but mystery lovers may be somewhat disappointed in the solution. I was. But there are enough fun plot twists and turns to make up for that. The book is really about the characters. Collins does an amazing job of making the characters so real you feel you can see them. That and his enlightened attitude toward race and class are what make this book a classic, in my opinion.
Parts of the book are slow while others are page turners. But my abso ...more
Parts of the book are slow while others are page turners. But my abso ...more
Fan-freaking-tastic novel!!! It started out a little slow, maybe the first 20 pages or so, so I had some doubts, but....wow! It was such a great plotline with twists, turns, suspects, clues (but only clues that raised more questions). I guessed multiple suspects at random, picking likely characters, unlikely characters, I honestly wasn't sure. I was dying to know who took the moonstone, how, and why. I really got caught up in the suspense of the plotline and read it to the very last sentence. Ab
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