T. S. Eliot called Collins's novel The Moonstone ( 1868 ) " the first, the longest, and the best of modern English detective novels ... in a genre invented by Collins and not by Poe ", and Dorothy L. Sayers called it " probably the very finest detective story ever written ".

* Wilkie Collins's The Moonstone ( 1868 ), widely regarded as one of the first true whodunits

Wilkie Collins ' epistolary novel The Woman in White was published in 1860, while The Moonstone ( 1868 ) is often thought to be his masterpiece.

Wilkie Collins ' The Moonstone ( 1868 ) features a rudimentary locked room murder.

* Wilkie Collins's " The Moonstone " ( 1868 )

Wilkie Collins ' epistolary novel The Moonstone ( 1868 ), is generally considered the first detective novel in the English language, while The Woman in White is regarded as one of the finest sensation novels.

Wilkie Collins ' epistolary novel The Woman in White was published in 1860, while The Moonstone ( 1868 ), is often thought to be his masterpiece.

The Moonstone ( 1868 ) by Wilkie Collins is a 19th-century British epistolary novel, generally considered the first detective novel in the English language.

It is also the setting for the first British detective novel, Wilkie Collins's ' The Moonstone ' ( 1868 ).

In Wilkie Collins ' 1868 novel The Moonstone, the narrator Gabriel Betteredge routinely practices bibliomancy using the pages of Daniel Defoe's Robinson Crusoe.

* The Moonstone, a 1868 book by Wilkie Collins

She was inspired by Victorian writers such as Wilkie Collins ; his novel The Moonstone ( 1868 ), with its plot twists and bevy of narrators, was " a major model ".

Although The Moonstone is usually seen as the first detective novel, a number of critics suggest that the lesser known Notting Hill Mystery ( 1862 – 63 ), written by the pseudonymous " Charles Felix ", preceded it by a number of years and first used techniques that would come to define the genre.

In December 2007, Moonstone released a new Banzai comic story A Christmas Corrall in the Moonstone Holiday Super Spectacular compilation, also written by Earl Mac Rauch and drawn by Ken Wolak.

In early 2009, Moonstone released Big Size, a special oversize one-shot comic, written by Earl Mac Rauch with art by Paul Hanley.

These include eight motion pictures starring Peter Lorre between 1937 and 1939, 23 radio shows starring James Monks broadcast in 1951, a 1965 film starring Henry Silva, and a 2003 comic book produced by Moonstone Books.

The graphic novel Welcome Back, Mr. Moto by Rafael Nieves and Tim Hamilton published by Moonstone Books in 2008 ( originally published in 2003 as a 3-issue comic book miniseries ) portrays Mr. Moto as an American of Japanese descent helping Japanese-American citizens after World War II.

A short Fantômas story by Paul Kupperberg and Roy Mann appeared in Captain Action Comics # 1, published in 2009 by Moonstone Books.

* A fictionalized account of her around the world trip was used in the comic book " Julie Walker is The Phantom " published by Moonstone Books ( Story: Elizabeth Massie, art: Paul Daly, colors: Stephen Downer ).

Colonel Herncastle, an unpleasant former soldier, brings the Moonstone back with him from India where he acquired it by theft and murder during the Siege of Seringapatam.

The plot also shows some parallels with an earlier murder mystery story by the English novelist Sarah Burney The Hermitage ( 1839 ): the return of a childhood companion, the sexual symbolism of defloration implied in the crime, and almost catatonic reactions of the heroine to it, for instance but The Moonstone introduces in novel form, as opposed to Poe's short story form, a number of elements that were to become classic attributes of the twentieth-century detective story:

Also a number of critics suggest that Charles Felix's ( pseudonym for Charles Warren Adams ) lesser known Notting Hill Mystery ( 1862 – 63 ) preceded The Moonstone by a number of years and first used techniques that would come to define the genre.

In 1934, the book was made into a critically acclaimed American film, The Moonstone by Monogram Pictures Corporation.

Richter have begun new adventures for Buckaroo Banzai, in the form of a comic book produced by Moonstone Books.

Since 2005 he has also been involved in Moonstone Project lead by Italian guitarist Matteo Filippini.

In 2003, Moonstone Books has adapted the Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar radio program into a graphic novel illustrated by Éric Thériault and written by David Gallaher.

In Wilkie Collins's most popular novel, The Moonstone, one of the chief characters and narrators, Gabriel Betteredge has faith in all that Robinson Crusoe says and uses the book for a sort of divination.

* Wilkie Collins-The Moonstone

The Moonstone and The Woman in White are considered Wilkie Collins ' best novels.

It is also mentioned by Wilkie Collins in The Moonstone.

Since 1990 he has written the Introduction to a Penguin Classics edition of the Sherlock Holmes stories, the foreword to a new French translation of Wilkie Collins ’ The Moonstone published by Editions Phebus, and other articles on 19th century and contemporary fiction.

English author Wilkie Collins referred to an ottoman in his novel, The Moonstone, " She instantly seated herself on the ottoman in the back drawing-room.

He also worked on adult novels, including editions of H. Rider Haggard's King Solomon's Mines and Wilkie Collins's The Moonstone.

Wilkie Collins described Elliotson as " one of the greatest English physiologists ," and cites an example of state-dependent memory from Elliotson's Human Physiology in The Moonstone.

Wilkie Collins's novel The Moonstone begins with the looting of the jewels removed from Seringapatam in 1799 from the legendary treasury of Tippu Sultan.

He was also in television adaptations of The Moonstone and The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins.

Besides creating many of the ground rules of the detective novel, The Moonstone also reflected Collins ' enlightened social attitudes in his treatment of the Indians and the servants in the novel.

Collins adapted The Moonstone for the stage in 1877, but the production was performed for only two months.

A heavily fictionalized account of Collins ' life while writing The Moonstone forms much of the plot of Dan Simmons ' 2009 novel, Drood.

This team uses over a dozen villains consisting of Absorbing Man, Blackout, Black Mamba, Fixer, Goliath, Grey Gargoyle, Mister Hyde, Moonstone, Screaming Mimi, Tiger Shark, Titania, Whirlwind, the Wrecking Crew ( Wrecker, Thunderball, Piledriver and Bulldozer ), and Yellowjacket, created with the goal of overwhelming the Avengers with sheer raw power where others had attempted to match the current line-up.

During this time, Samson is able to help Penance focus his powers back to their original state, which he uses to defeat Moonstone in combat when ( under the influence of a group of renegade telepaths ) she tries to kill Samson.