The Moonstone

The Moonstone
First edition title page
AuthorWilkie Collins
LanguageEnglish
GenreEpistolary novel
Detective novel
Set inYorkshire and London, 1848–1850
Published1868 (book form)
PublisherTinsley Brothers
Publication placeEngland
Media typePrint
823.89
LC ClassPR4494.M62
TextThe Moonstone at Wikisource

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 publication was started on 4 January 1868 and was completed on 8 August 1868. The story was serialised in Charles Dickens's magazine All the Year Round. Collins adapted The Moonstone for the stage in 1877.