The moonstone
by Wilkie Collins
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The Moonstone, a yellow diamond looted from an Indian temple and believed to bring bad luck to its owner, is bequeathed to Rachel Verinder on her eighteenth birthday. That very night the priceless stone is stolen again and when Sergeant Cuff is brought in to investigate the crime, he soon realizes that no one in Rachel?s household is above suspicion. Hailed by T. S. Eliot as "the first, the longest, and the best of modern English detective novels," The Moonstone is a marvellously taut and intricate tale of mystery, in which facts and memory can prove treacherous and not everyone is as they first appear.
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England, India, Great Britain, Ying guoTimes
19th century, 18th Century, Jin dai, s. XIX, 1868Showing 11 featured editions. View all 639 editions?
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The moonstone: Volume II
1868, Tinsley Brothers, 18, Catherine Street, Strand
Vol. 2 of 3
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One of the first English detective novels, this mystery involves the disappearance of a valuable diamond, originally stolen from a Hindu idol, given to a young woman on her eighteenth birthday, and then stolen again. A classic of 19th-century literature.
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