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Wilkie Collins's classic tale of Rachel Verinder, a young Englishwoman who inherits a fabulous diamond (the eponymous Moonstone). The Moonstone has a long and fabled history tracing back to an group of Hindu priests ordered to guard it by Vishnu. After Rachel loses the Moonstone... Read Full Overview

Who, in the name of wonder, had taken the Moonstone out of Miss Rachel's drawer?

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The Moonstone (1868) by Wilkie Collins is a 19th-century British epistolary novel. It is generally considered to be the first detective novel, and it established many of the ground rules of the modern detective novel. The story was originally serialised in Charles Dickens' magazine... Read Full Overview

Wilkie Collins's spellbinding tale of romance, theft, and murder that inspired the hugely popular modern detective genre. The Moonstone, a priceless yellow diamond, is stolen and no-one is above suspicion as the peculiar Sergeant Cuff pieces together a puzzling series of events.

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The classic British detective novel by Wilkie Collins.

Called "the first and greatest of English detective novels" by T.S.Eliot, The Moonstone is a masterpiece of suspense. A fabulous yellow diamond becomes the dangerous inheritance of Rachel Verinder. Outside her Yorkshire country house watch the Hindu priests who have waited for... Read Full Overview

Suspense, humor, and romance abound in this 1868 mystery, in which a gem stolen from a Hindu shrine resurfaces in an English country home -- with a trio of watchful Brahmins hot on its trail.

The MoonstoneBy Wilkie Collins