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Loved it! Quintessentially English and Victorian:- Melodrama, long-winded, some hocus-pocus elements in the plot, but still immensely readable today. An absolute treat. It did sag a bit towards the end but by then I'd chuckled my way through the first half and the 5 stars were firmly awarded.
This novel is often credited with being the first detective novel in English. But according to the foreword of my Oxford World Classics edition, it was not the first. Rather, it introduced the standard featu ...more
This novel is often credited with being the first detective novel in English. But according to the foreword of my Oxford World Classics edition, it was not the first. Rather, it introduced the standard featu ...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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