How To Eyewitnesses In The Moonstone

Wilkie Collins’s The Moonstone is centered on an intricate plot surrounded by a multitude of first person narratives with complex eyewitnesses and truthiness backgrounds. The Moonstone becomes one of the defining novels for the English detective genre, but in fact the novel is not solved by the detectives, yet rather a scientist, Ezra Jennings. Defining characters, Seegrave and Sergeant Mr. Cuff are looked at in the novel to recover the incident, but because the novel takes many circumstantial views on truthiness we are able to recover the lost diamond through forensic science rather than intuition.
Seegrave is first seen in the novel after the dinner party to recollect missing pieces from the dinner guests in hopes to recover the missing diamond. Superintendent Seegrave is sent from the Frizinghall police office because they believe he is best fitted to solve the investigation. Not only does his strict military persona build him up to be more than he is but the title he carries automatically makes people rely on him to be able to cure the anxiety the family is facing. Betteredge makes this clear when he states “I have the greatest faith in him!” (Collins 87). Superintendent Seegrave questions the people of the household suspecting the most innocent characters and ignores the evidence surrounding the dinner party. The
Throughout The Moonstone the point of having multiple narrators is not to make eyewitness an importance but to show that forensic science and medical knowledge is more powerful and effective in detective fiction. Ronald Thomas’s piece The Moonstone, detective fiction and forensic science looks at Collins first detective novel with literary expertise when the opening detectives are replaced and the incident becomes unraveled through Ezra Jennings experimental