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    Wilkie Collins was an English novelist and playwright in the 19th century known for writing sensation novels featuring detective and suspense elements. His 1868 novel The Moonstone is considered a precursor to the modern mystery genre and introduced key attributes that became standard in detective novels, such as a country house robbery, false suspects, and a reconstruction of the crime. The Moonstone is praised by T.S. Eliot as the first and best modern English detective novel, inventing the genre rather than Edgar Allan Poe.

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    Wilkie Collins was an English novelist and playwright in the 19th century known for writing sensation novels featuring detective and suspense elements. His 1868 novel The Moonstone is considered a precursor to the modern mystery genre and introduced key attributes that became standard in detective novels, such as a country house robbery, false suspects, and a reconstruction of the crime. The Moonstone is praised by T.S. Eliot as the first and best modern English detective novel, inventing the genre rather than Edgar Allan Poe.

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    Wilkie Collins was an English novelist and playwright in the 19th century known for writing sensation novels featuring detective and suspense elements. His 1868 novel The Moonstone is considered a precursor to the modern mystery genre and introduced key attributes that became standard in detective novels, such as a country house robbery, false suspects, and a reconstruction of the crime. The Moonstone is praised by T.S. Eliot as the first and best modern English detective novel, inventing the genre rather than Edgar Allan Poe.

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    The Moonstone by

    Wilkie Collins
    BOUDA, DEVEROVÁ
    Wilkie Collins (1824-1889)

     English novelist and playwright


     London, Italy, France
     close friends with Charles Dickens
     sensation novels – detective and suspense
     after The Moonstone -> fewer thriller
    elements and more social commentary
     addicted to opium
    Literary Significance

     the precursor of the modern mystery and suspense novel


     published in 1868 -> Poe‘s The Murders in the Rue Morgue (1841)
     T. S. Eliot: "the first, the longest, and the best of modern English detective novels in a genre invented by
    Collins and not by Poe“
     introduced key elements that became classic attributes of the 20th century detective story in novel form:
    a country house robbery
     “inside job“
     professional investigator
     false suspects
    a reconstruction of the crime
     plotwist
    Plot Summary
    Sources

     Karl, Frederick R. "Introduction". The Moonstone. 2002. p. 9. ISBN 0-451-52829-8.


     Wheat, Carolyn. How to Write Killer Fiction: The Funhouse of Mystery and The Roller
    Coaster of Suspense. CA: Perseverance Press, 2003. ISBN 1880284626.
     Wikipedia contributors. Wilkie Collins Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia; 2022 Nov 6,
    10:16 UTC [cited 2022 Nov 8]. Available from: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?
    title=Wilkie_Collins&oldid=1120314648

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