READERS GUIDE Questions and Topics for Discussion INTRODUCTION “To Mr. Collins belongs the credit of having introduced into fiction those most mysterious of mysteries, the mysteries which are at our own doors.” —Henry James Illegitimacy, mistaken identity, insanity, inheritance, drugs, adultery, crimes of passion — all of these lurid features of Victorian life were Wilkie Collins’s stock in trade. In The Moonstone he single-handedly developed most elements of the classic detective story…
