Sergeant Cuff, right, and Gabriel Betteridge. Illustration by for 'The Moonstone' by Wilkie
Sergeant Cuff, right, and Gabriel Betteridge following Roseanna Speareman's footsteps to the Shivering Sands. 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'.