Gentleman detective
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The gentleman detective is a type of fictional character that has long been a staple of crime fiction, particularly in detective novels and short stories set in the United Kingdom in the Golden Age. W
Sherlock Holmes (right) and Dr Watson, by Sidney Paget (1901)
The Moonstone
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The Moonstone: A Romance by Wilkie Collins is an 1868 British epistolary novel. It is an early example of the modern detective novel, and established many of the ground rules of the modern genre. Its
First edition title page
A yellow diamond with a flaw in the centre, similar to the "Moonstone" of the novel.
Rachel Verinder confronts Franklin Blake (1891 illustration)
Cover of the Classic Comics edition