The moonstone
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 intrica…
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- Full title :The moonstone / Wilkie Collins ; edited with an introduction by Sandra Kemp.
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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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- Publication Date:1998.
Publication Statements
- Publisher(s):Penguin
- Place of Publication:London
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:1998.
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- Description:528 pages ; : 20 cm.
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- ISBN:0140434089, 9780140434088, 0140620133, 9780140620139
- oclc:ocm40050753
- LC Classification:PR4494
- Dewey Decimal:823.8
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