Rachel Verrinder, Illustration by Arthur Fraser

Rachel Verrinder, in front of Godfrey Abelwhite and Miss Clack, making her false confession to her mother that she has pledged the Moonstone to pay private debts. Illustration by Arthur Fraser (active 1865-1898) for The Moonstone by Wilkie Collins (London, 1890). First published in 1868 and said by TS Eliot to be the the first and greatest of English detective novels

Clack Confession Debts Eliot Godfrey Moonstone Novels Pledged Sensation Wilkie

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