Bettie's Books

bookshelves: fraudio, classic, britain-england, mystery-thriller, play-dramatisation, re-read, victorian, published-1868, spring-2010

A re-read of a re-read! And why not!?

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. This 'scription comes from http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/collins.htm 

With John Sharp as Gabriel Betteredge,
John Telfer as Franklin Blake,
Sally Baxter as Rachel Verinder,
Geoffrey Beevers as Godfrey Ablewhite,
Petra Davies as Lady Verinder,
Tamrny Ustinov as Rosanna Spearman,
Josie Kidd as Penelope Betteredge,
Gordon Dulieu as Mr. Murthwaite,
Danny Schiller as Mr. Candy,
Geoffrey Serle as Indian,
Crispian Balmer as Boy,
Lisa Penny as Felicity Ablewhite,
Deborah Jane Sharpe as Georgina Ablewhite,
John Franklyn-Robbins as Sergeant Cuff,
Matthew Adams as Samuel’l (footman),
Debby Cumming as Duffy,
Rex Holdsworth as Supt. Seegrave,
Josephine Scott Matthews as Nancy,
Tom Eastwood as Yolland,
Nat Brenner as Mr. Bruff,
June Barrie as Miss Clack,
Liza Flanagan as Lucy Yolland,
Adrian Egan as Septimus Luker,
Margot Boyd as Aunt Ablewhite,
Godfrey Kenton as Ablewhite Senior,
Philip Sully as Ezra Jennings,
Barkley Johnson as Hopkins/Landlord,
Emlyn Harris as Woods/Waiter.
Adapted from the novel by Wilkie Collins. Dramatised in 6 parts by Brian Gear. Music by Sidney Sager. Produced by Brian Miller.