The Moonstone [Naxos AudioBooks Edition] – Wilkie Collins Free Audiobook

Written by Wilkie Collins
Read by Ronald Pickup, Sean Barrett, David Timson, Jamie Parker, Jonathan Oliver, Fenella Woolgar, Joe Marsh
Format: MP3
Bitrate: 64 Kbps
Unabridged

Length: 22 hrs and 26 mins
Publisher: 2014, Naxos AudioBooks

The Moonstone is often said to be the godfather of the classic English detective story. TS Eliot, claiming that the genre was “invented by Collins and not by Poe”, declared it to be “the first, the longest and the best of modern English detective novels

The stone of the title is an enormous diamond plundered from an Indian shrine after the Siege of Seringapatam. Given to Miss Verinder on her eighteenth birthday, it mysteriously disappears that very night. Suspicion falls on three Indian jugglers who have been seen in the neighborhood. But all is not as it seems; dark secrets lurk behind respectable façades, and the trail of clues leads Sergeant Cluff in quite a different direction.

The Moonstone was originally serialized by Charles Dickens, a close friend of the author in his magazine All the Year Round between 4 January and 8 August 1868. It was published in three hardback volumes on 16 July 1868 by Tinsley Brothers of Catherine Street, in Covent Garden. A second, revised edition was issued in 1871.

Important note about this recording—it can confuse you. Not all chapters are numbered and there are “parts, “narratives” and 2 epilogues so numbers are repeated.. You will note that my numbering got a bit off from First to Second Period..

I have divided it into Four sections and each section into chapters, etc:
1 First Period The Loss of the Diamond (1848)
2 Second Period The Discovery of the Truth (1848–1849)
3 Narative Four thru Eight
4 Epilogues

Naxos divides it down even further so I have included the information pdf the accompanies the recording.