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From: The Stranger
Date: 20060803
Author:Mudede, Charles

Crack Detective

The Moonstone

by Wilkie Collins

(Oxford World's Classics)

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Wilkie Collins and the Birth of the Whodunit by Charles Mudede

IF YOU WANT to see where your way of mind was born, go to the 19th century, which begins with the French Revolution and ends with the First World War. You will find very little of who you are-how you think, how you consume, how you get high, how you make money-in the world before this long century. For example, the detective-who in our time is a more common figure than the priest-is born in the 19th century.

The inventor of the pure detective form is, ...

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