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The Moonstone

Wilkie Collins (1824 - 1889)

The story concerns a young woman called Rachel Verinder who inherits a large Indian diamond, the Moonstone, on her eighteenth birthday.

The book is widely regarded as the precursor of the modern mystery and suspense novels. T. S. Eliot called it 'the first, the longest, and the best of modern English detective novels'. It contains a number of ideas which became common tropes of the genre: a large number of suspects, red herrings, a crime being investigated by talented amateurs who happen to be present when it is committed, and two police officers who exemplify respectively the 'local bungler' and the skilled, professional, Scotland Yard detective. (Summary from Wikipedia)

Genre(s): Detective Fiction

Language: English

Section	Chapter	Reader	Time
Play 00	Prologue	Mike Gardom	00:14:25
Play 01	First Period: Chapter 1	Mike Gardom	00:06:24
Play 02	First Period: Chapter 2	Mike Gardom	00:11:06
Play 03	First Period: Chapter 3	Mike Gardom	00:16:37
Play 04	First Period: Chapter 4	Mike Gardom	00:20:57
Play 05	First Period: Chapter 5	Mike Gardom	00:18:18
Play 06	First Period: Chapter 6	Lee Ann Howlett	00:25:14
Play 07	First Period: Chapter 7	Mike Gardom	00:09:55
Play 08	First Period: Chapter 8	Mike Gardom	00:27:44
Play 09	First Period: Chapter 9	Mike Gardom	00:15:30
Play 10	First Period: Chapter 10	Lee Ann Howlett	00:27:04
Play 11	First Period: Chapter 11	Graham Redman	00:53:28
Play 12	First Period: Chapter 12	Gesine	00:28:41
Play 13	First Period: Chapter 13	Gesine	00:16:54
Play 14	First Period: Chapter 14	J. M. Smallheer	00:18:26
Play 15	First Period: Chapter 15	J. M. Smallheer	00:29:26
Play 16	First Period: Chapter 16	J. M. Smallheer	00:18:58
Play 17	First Period: Chapter 17	J. M. Smallheer	00:14:10
Play 18	First Period: Chapter 18	Lee Ann Howlett	00:14:24
Play 19	First Period: Chapter 19	Lee Ann Howlett	00:10:24
Play 20	First Period: Chapter 20	Mike Gardom	00:08:47
Play 21	First Period: Chapter 21	Mike Gardom	00:27:43
Play 22	First Period: Chapter 22	Mike Gardom	00:22:46
Play 23	First Period: Chapter 23	Mike Gardom	00:30:05
Play 24	Second Period: First Narrative I	Kristine Bekere	00:32:18
Play 25	Second Period: First Narrative II	Kristine Bekere	00:27:46
Play 26	Second Period: First Narrative III	Kristine Bekere	00:26:22
Play 27	Second Period: First Narrative IV	Kristine Bekere	00:21:58
Play 28	Second Period: First Narrative V	Kristine Bekere	00:22:03
Play 29	Second Period: First Narrative VI & VII	Kristine Bekere	00:30:22
Play 30	Second Period: First Narrative VIII	Kristine Bekere	00:34:54
Play 31	Second Period: Second Narrative I	Joel Poortenga	00:26:10
Play 32	Second Period: Second Narrative II & III	Joel Poortenga	00:34:31
Play 33	Second Period: Third Narrative I & II	Joel Poortenga	00:28:12
Play 34	Second Period: Third Narrative III	Joel Poortenga	00:20:29
Play 35	Second Period: Third Narrative IV	Joel Poortenga	00:34:45
Play 36	Second Period: Third Narrative V	Joel Poortenga	00:21:42
Play 37	Second Period: Third Narrative VI	Joel Poortenga	00:22:17
Play 38	Second Period: Third Narrative VII	Joel Poortenga	00:32:28
Play 39	Second Period: Third Narrative VIII	Joel Poortenga	00:31:40
Play 40	Second Period: Third Narrative IX	Joel Poortenga	00:36:26
Play 41	Second Period: Third Narrative X	Joel Poortenga	00:35:10
Play 42	Second Period: Fourth Narrative Part 1	Graham Redman	00:31:05
Play 43	Second Period: Fourth Narrative Part 2	Graham Redman	00:36:16
Play 44	Second Period: Fourth Narrative Part 3	Graham Redman	00:38:26
Play 45	Second Period: Fifth Narrative	Joel Poortenga	00:42:41
Play 46	Second Period: Sixth Narrative	Joel Poortenga	00:27:28
Play 47	Second Period: Seventh and Eighth Narratives; Epilogue	Justin Brett	00:26:00

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