Sunshine Challenge Day Three

For moonstone, I decided to focus on the Wilkie Collins' novel The Moonstone [1868]. This novel is one of the pioneering works in detective fiction in the English-speaking world. It's an epistolary work, told from diaries and accounts of different persons involved, so the reader gets to play detective, figuring out from all the perspective what is going on. Very nice plot work. Very intricate, which I love. Ironically, the moonstone is a diamond, not a moonstone. It's a gem looted from India by colonizers and brings misfortune to an English countryhouse. I listened to audiobook version [narrated by James Langton, who does an excellent job with so many voices]. I also watched two TV versions one from the 1970s and one more recent (which makes Betteridge and his daughter POC, which was nice). The solution (or part of it) is about as credible as Edgar Allan Poe's solution to "The Murders in the Rue Morgue," but, hey, it's Victorian sensationalism and They Did It First. There is a character named Drucilla Clack, who is a Christian zealot, spinster, who has the unendearing habit of hiding, scattering, and thrusting her evangelizing pamphlets all about. Like many zealots, she's a funny caricature until she isn't and I was painfully reminded that people like Clack are many and in very high places.

So, I did a moodboard and a double drabble (for the Drabble Zone prompt of Angels and Demons) of Clack crossing over with Crowley and Aziraphale of Good Omens [rating: Gen].

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( Good Omens double drabble )