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The Moonstone
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Published in 1868 as a magazine serial, The Moonstone by Wilkie Collins is English literature's first detective novel and still one of the best. The story is told by several different narrators who, according to the framing story, have been asked to write down their involvement by the hero.Lovely young Rachel Verinder receives an unexpected and (to her mother) unwelcome 18th birthday present from her late uncle, the family Black Sheep. Mr. Murthwaite, a famous explorer and one of the party guests, tells Rachel and Mrs. Verinder that the large yellow diamond was stolen from a Hindu idol 20 or 30 years before and that the Indian 'jugglers' who entertain the party are nothing of the kind but, most probably, Hindu priests trying to regain their sacred stone. That very night, the diamond disappears.Rachel has two suitors, both her first cousins, Godfrey Ablewhite and Franklin Blake, staying in the house. It soon becomes clear that she suspects Blake of being the thief. The detective called in on the case, Sergeant Cuff, on the other hand, suspects Rachel herself, along with one of the maids, who has a criminal background. The true solution proves to be much more complex than either theory, involving several parties, all with their own unconnected motives.The novel is noteworthy not only for codifying, if not originating, many Detective Fiction tropes, but for being a compelling work of social critique and examination. The narrators include the butler to an aristocratic house, a penniless spinster with a Vocation, and a doctor who is explicitly of mixed race. These are all characters on the fringe of Society, yet Collins gives them voices and important roles in observing and reporting the story's action. He also touches deftly on themes of imperialism and colonialism, as well as medicine and drug addiction. | |
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Sexy Shirt Switch | |
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Sexy Shirt Switch: It's hinted at in the book, but this adaptation makes it quite clear that Rosanna is turned on when she has to conceal Franklin's nightgown by wearing it under her clothes. | |
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No Celebrities Were Harmed | |
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No Celebrities Were Harmed: Explorer Mr. Murthwaite is clearly based on the adventurer Richard Burton. | |
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Ripped from the Headlines | |
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Ripped from the Headlines: Herncastle acquired the Moonstone, under circumstances implied to be suspicious and shameful, while looting Seringapatam after the siege of 1799. Collins may well have been thinking of the (at the time of the book's writing) much more recent looting of other Indian artefacts by British soldiers during the Indian Mutiny. Betteredge has several discussions with other characters about whether more democracy is a good thing or not, which probably reflects the serial being written around the time of the passage of the Second Great Reform Act (1867) which expanded the voting franchise in the UK. | |
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Genre Savvy | |
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General Herncastle's Genre Savvy way of protecting himself from the three Indians over the years by legally engineering matters so the Moonstone will be broken up by jewellers if he is killed, in stark contrast to how many later stories would treat this sort of thing as an inevitable curse. | |
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TwistEnding | |
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Twist Ending: Another very early example. | |
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Society Marches On | |
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Betteredge has several discussions with other characters about whether more democracy is a good thing or not, which probably reflects the serial being written around the time of the passage of the Second Great Reform Act (1867) which expanded the voting franchise in the UK. | |
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True Art Is Ancient | |
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True Art Is Ancient: Mocked, In-Universe, by Ezra Jennings: | |
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In Medias Res | |
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In Medias Res: The adaptation begins with the start of Franklin Blake's Third Narrative, then flashes back to the beginning once he meets Betteredge in Yorkshire. | |
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Red Right Hand | |
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Red Right Hand: Rosanna Spearman, ex-thief and maid, is a hunchback. Ezra Jennings, who has a dark secret in his past, has piebald hair. Neither are bad people, and the true villain is handsome and healthy. | |
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Non-Indicative Name | |
| The Moonstone / int_295087bf | comment |
Non-Indicative Name: The title, insofar as it refers to a yellow diamond, and not the actual gem◊ known as a moonstone. Nor is it a stone that comes from the moon, awesome as that would be; it's only sacred to (and stolen from an idol of) some Indian Moon god. | |
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And Another Thing... | |
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And Another Thing...: One of the Indians visits the offices of a couple barristers merely to form an excuse to ask one final question before leaving. | |
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Shipper on Deck | |
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Shipper on Deck: A Shipping War In-Universe, no less! Early in the book, Betteredge and his daughter, Penelope, butt heads over whether Rachel covets Godfrey Ablewhite's affections (Betteredge's view) or Franklin Blake (Penelope's). | |
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Kid Detective | |
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Kid Detective: Introduced in the last couple of chapters, "Gooseberry," a boy with large and prominent eyes, whom Cuff hires to track down a suspect. Cuff speaks very warmly of the boy's innate detective smarts. | |
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Spirited Young Lady | |
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Spirited Young Lady: Rachel, maybe even a Tsundere. | |
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Shirtless Scene | |
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Shirtless Scene: Franklin Blake and Godfrey Ablewhite each get one, with Rachel and Miss Clack, respectively, Eating the Eye Candy. | |
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Crime Reconstruction | |
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Crime Reconstruction: Used to figure out what happened to the Moonstone. | |
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Death by Adaptation | |
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Death by Adaptation: Doctor Candy dies rather than just losing his memory. | |
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Hidden Villain | |
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Hidden Villain: Godfrey, who seemed the most trustworthy, pious, and charitable of all (at least, he fooled the various narrators). | |
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Taking the Heat | |
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Taking the Heat: The two main suspects (both female) turn out to have been independently covering for the same man, whom they both love, after seeing what each believes to be proof that he stole the eponymous gemstone. | |
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Lazy Bum | |
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Lazy Bum: Mrs Ablewhite. | |
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Bookends | |
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Book-Ends: The prologue and epilogue are set in India. | |
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Call to Agriculture | |
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Call to Agriculture: Sergeant Cuff retires to cultivate roses. | |
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Mineral MacGuffin | |
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Mineral MacGuffin: The Moonstone itself, a large yellow diamond. Though beautiful and valuable, it has a flaw at its heart that reduces its value; the stone would have to be cut up for someone to reap a real profit from it - and the three Indian priests are concerned with the stone remaining whole. | |
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Serious Business | |
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Sergeant Cuff's obsession with roses, and in particular his never-ending Serious Business argument with the Verinders' gardener about the best way to grow dog-roses. | |
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Explosive Results | |
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Explosive Results: Discussed for laughs. Rachel's guardian Mrs Merridew is convinced that any scientific experiment will inevitably end in an explosion. Becomes a Brick Joke when Rachel needs to get her out of the way in a hurry, and achieves this by telling her the explosion's imminent. | |
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Lemony Narrator | |
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Lemony Narrator: Gabriel Betteridge | |
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Babies Ever After | |
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Babies Ever After | |
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In Touch with His Feminine Side | |
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In Touch with His Feminine Side: Mr. Ezra Jennings says to Franklin Blake, "Some men are born with female constitutions... and I am one of them!" (He's crying Tender Tears at the moment, and is shown to be emotional and gentle to his patients). | |
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Adaptational Angst Upgrade | |
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Adaptational Angst Upgrade: Unlike in the book, Rachel and Franklin aren't immediately reconciled by Ezra Jennings's experiment, and continue to suspect each other until the truth finally comes out. | |
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Spared by the Adaptation | |
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Spared by the Adaptation: Ezra Jennings. | |
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All Love Is Unrequited | |
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All Love Is Unrequited: Rosanna Spearman. Drusilla Clack, it is implied, might be in love with Godfrey Ablewhite — she sure talks about the "religious fervor" he inspires in her in very passionate ways. | |
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All-Star Cast | |
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All-Star Cast: Including Greg Wise, Keeley Hawes, Terrence Hardiman, Antony Sher and Peter Vaughan. | |
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Hopeless Suitor | |
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Hopeless Suitor: Rosanna Spearman | |
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Living a Double Life | |
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Living a Double Life: Godfrey Ablewhite, who seems to be a generous and courteous philanthropist, has actually been siphoning off money trusted to him for his ward's care, and keeps a mistress in the country. | |
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Narrator All Along | |
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Narrator All Along: Each episode opens with the backstory of the diamond, told as a puppet show. At the end of the last episode, it's revealed that the show was being presented by Franklin and Rachel's Babies Ever After. | |
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Real Song Theme Tune | |
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Real Song Theme Tune: The beginning of the fourth movement of Schumann's Symphony No. 4. | |
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Measuring the Marigolds | |
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Measuring the Marigolds: Gabriel Betteredge speaks out against gentlefolk who take up a "natural science" hobby in order to dissect flowers. He asks, "Is its perfume any better, or its color any prettier, when you do know?" But what he chiefly objects to isn't the science, but the callous and destructive way that gentlefolk pursue the hobby out of sheer boredom. | |
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Wham Episode | |
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Wham Episode: The chapter containing the revelations from Rachel and (posthumously) Rosanna regarding the thief's identity. | |
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Kissing Cousins | |
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Kissing Cousins: Rachel seems unaware that there are eligible young men in England who are not related to her. The only suitors she considers in the entire book are her two first cousins. | |
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Scrapbook Story | |
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Scrapbook Story | |
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Vomit Indiscretion Shot | |
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Vomit Indiscretion Shot: Penelope's reaction to the paint fumes is shown onscreen. | |
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Quicksand Sucks | |
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Quicksand Sucks: The Shivering Sand. Dangerous, but not an impossible trap. It's used by a certain character to hide an incriminating piece of evidence, using a locked box and a chain, and to commit suicide. Actually a more realistic take on the trope, as the Shivering Sand is closer to a tidal mudflat, which is very dangerous and acts a bit more like quicksand-in-tropeland than quicksand in reality does. | |
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Old Retainer | |
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Old Retainer: Gabriel Betteridge, who refers to his lady and Miss Verinder in the warmest of terms — far more warmly, in fact, than he refers to his wife. | |
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Black Sheep | |
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Black Sheep: General Herncastle, Rachel's wicked uncle. He committed many crimes in India as a soldier, and for that and other reasons he is persona non grata to the rest of the family. His gift to Rachel is so unexpected it's immediately suspicious. | |
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Love at First Sight | |
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Love at First Sight: Rosanna Spearman for Franklin Blake. | |
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The Stakeout | |
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The Stakeout: Probably the earliest example. | |
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Ur-Example | |
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Ur-Example: Famously described by T. S. Eliot as "the first and greatest of English detective novels". | |
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| The Moonstone / int_b2f26025 | type |
Genki Girl | |
| The Moonstone / int_b2f26025 | comment |
Genki Girl: Godfrey's sisters, whom Betteredge calls 'the Bouncers'. | |
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The Moonstone / int_b2f26025 | |
| The Moonstone / int_b58761a7 | type |
Type Caste | |
| The Moonstone / int_b58761a7 | comment |
Type Caste: Collins correctly states that observant Hindus (such as the three priests, who are specified to be Brahmins) lose their caste when they cross the sea/large body of water. | |
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The Moonstone / int_b58761a7 | |
| The Moonstone / int_bc00493f | type |
Precision F-Strike | |
| The Moonstone / int_bc00493f | comment |
Precision F-Strike: From the senior Ablewhite: "Miss Jane Ann Stamper be ——!" | |
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The Moonstone / int_bc00493f | |
| The Moonstone / int_bdc94cd9 | type |
Compressed Adaptation | |
| The Moonstone / int_bdc94cd9 | comment |
Compressed Adaptation: The story jumps from Lady Verinder's death to Mr Blake senior's death, omitting the subplot where Rachel and Godfrey get engaged and then decide against marrying. | |
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The Moonstone / int_bdc94cd9 | |
| The Moonstone / int_bf1edb7e | type |
Comforting Comforter | |
| The Moonstone / int_bf1edb7e | comment |
Comforting Comforter: Rachel to Franklin, when he falls asleep at the end of Ezra Jennings's experiment. | |
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The Moonstone / int_bf1edb7e | |
| The Moonstone / int_c41114f6 | type |
Year X | |
| The Moonstone / int_c41114f6 | comment |
Year X: An interesting aversion compared to many contemporary works, instead giving exact dates for the story in the years 1848 and 1849 (about twenty years before it was written). Oddly, it never mentions the European revolutions of 1848 despite Drusilla Clack going to live in France and Franklin Blake also travelling through Europe at the time. | |
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The Moonstone / int_c41114f6 | |
| The Moonstone / int_c5ef2d50 | type |
Cringe Comedy | |
| The Moonstone / int_c5ef2d50 | comment |
Cringe Comedy: Drusilla Clack's chapter, which consists largely of her attempts to self-righteously proselytize at the most awkward and inappropriate times possible. | |
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The Moonstone / int_c5ef2d50 | |
| The Moonstone / int_c75df49a | type |
Shout-Out | |
| The Moonstone / int_c75df49a | comment |
Shout-Out: Betteridge believes that Robinson Crusoe contains all of the world's wisdom. | |
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The Moonstone / int_c75df49a | |
| The Moonstone / int_cb70651c | type |
Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane | |
| The Moonstone / int_cb70651c | comment |
Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane: The way the Indians unerringly track the Moonstone, at one point appearing to divine its location using a drop of ink in the palm of a hypnotised boy, although Mr. Murthwaite dismisses this as just for show. | |
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The Moonstone / int_cb70651c | |
| The Moonstone / int_d08595d3 | type |
Broken Bird | |
| The Moonstone / int_d08595d3 | comment |
Broken Bird: Rosanna Spearman of course, but also the unlikeable Miss Clack. | |
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The Moonstone / int_d08595d3 | |
| The Moonstone / int_d1ceb951 | type |
Holier Than Thou | |
| The Moonstone / int_d1ceb951 | comment |
Holier Than Thou: Miss Clack | |
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The Moonstone / int_d1ceb951 | |
| The Moonstone / int_d7c3ba61 | type |
Race Lift | |
| The Moonstone / int_d7c3ba61 | comment |
Race Lift: Betteredge is West Indian, and Penelope is accordingly mixed-race. | |
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1.0 | |
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The Moonstone / int_d7c3ba61 | |
| The Moonstone / int_db9940c4 | type |
Famed In-Story | |
| The Moonstone / int_db9940c4 | comment |
Famed In-Story: Sergeant Cuff, who is known for discreetly solving various embarrassing conundrums the wealthy are faced with. | |
| The Moonstone / int_db9940c4 | featureApplicability |
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The Moonstone / int_db9940c4 | |
| The Moonstone / int_dbca2c99 | type |
Red Herring | |
| The Moonstone / int_dbca2c99 | comment |
Red Herring: Innumerable! Rosanna Spearman is a noteworthy one, an ex-thief who now works in the Verinder house, and who acts awfully suspicious around Franklin Blake. | |
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The Moonstone / int_dbca2c99 | |
| The Moonstone / int_dcbe8a6e | type |
Chekhov's Gunman | |
| The Moonstone / int_dcbe8a6e | comment |
Chekhov's Gunman: Dr Candy and Ezra Jennings | |
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The Moonstone / int_dcbe8a6e | |
| The Moonstone / int_e3109dae | type |
Switching P.O.V. | |
| The Moonstone / int_e3109dae | comment |
Switching P.O.V. | |
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| The Moonstone | hasFeature |
The Moonstone / int_e3109dae | |
| The Moonstone / int_e4965307 | type |
Composite Character | |
| The Moonstone / int_e4965307 | comment |
Composite Character: Mr Murthwaite is written out; his lines are given to Doctor Candy. | |
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The Moonstone / int_e4965307 | |
| The Moonstone / int_f07f6a96 | type |
How Did You Get It? | |
| The Moonstone / int_f07f6a96 | comment |
How Did You Get It?: The Moonstone is pawned to a moneylender. His first question is "How did you come by this?" and he refuses to lend anything until he's got a truthful answer. | |
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1.0 | |
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The Moonstone / int_f07f6a96 | |
| The Moonstone / int_f0e85546 | type |
Unbuilt Trope | |
| The Moonstone / int_f0e85546 | comment |
Unbuilt Trope: General Herncastle's Genre Savvy way of protecting himself from the three Indians over the years by legally engineering matters so the Moonstone will be broken up by jewellers if he is killed, in stark contrast to how many later stories would treat this sort of thing as an inevitable curse. Sergeant Cuff feels like a deconstruction of the Great Detective trope as he is Famed In-Story but, though doing much better than any other investigator for most of the story, fails to solve the mystery alone. However, he is arguably the first example of a Famed In-Story Great Detective in English literature! | |
| The Moonstone / int_f0e85546 | featureApplicability |
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The Moonstone / int_f0e85546 | |
| The Moonstone / int_f180486d | type |
Great Detective | |
| The Moonstone / int_f180486d | comment |
Sergeant Cuff feels like a deconstruction of the Great Detective trope as he is Famed In-Story but, though doing much better than any other investigator for most of the story, fails to solve the mystery alone. However, he is arguably the first example of a Famed In-Story Great Detective in English literature! | |
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The Moonstone / int_f180486d | |
| The Moonstone / int_f9f2c33 | type |
RunningGag | |
| The Moonstone / int_f9f2c33 | comment |
Running Gag: Betteredge's firm conviction that the answers to all of life's problems can be found within the pages of Robinson Crusoe, and him consulting it as though it were the Bible. Sergeant Cuff's obsession with roses, and in particular his never-ending Serious Business argument with the Verinders' gardener about the best way to grow dog-roses. | |
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| The Moonstone / int_name | type |
ItemName | |
| The Moonstone / int_name | comment |
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