by Wilkie Collins · Ediciones B · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788440676160
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«La piedra lunar» is Wilkie Collins's detective novel, published by Ediciones B in paperback (650 pages, in Spanish).
The novel begins when a valuable jewel, the Moonstone, stolen from a Hindu shrine, arrives as a birthday gift to Rachel Verinder. That same night the jewel disappears and Sergeant Cuff begins an investigation in which each character involved offers their own version of events.
This Spanish edition, published in 1998, belongs to Ediciones B's Biblioteca de Bolsillo collection (no. 53); the original work appeared in 1868 under the title The Moonstone.
For those seeking the origins of the detective novel, with its multiple-testimony structure and the atmosphere of Victorian England.
William Wilkie Collins was an English novelist and playwright known especially for The Woman in White (1860), a mystery novel and early sensation novel, and for The Moonstone (1868), which established many of the ground rules of the modern detective novel and is also perhaps the earliest clear example of the police procedural genre.
