The Moonstone
$23.71
- Paperback
528 pages
- Release Date
28 August 2003
Summary
The Moonstone, a priceless yellow diamond, is looted from an Indian temple and maliciously bequeathed to Rachel Verinder. On her eighteenth birthday, her friend and suitor Franklin Blake brings the gift to her. That very night, it is stolen again. No one is above suspicion, as the idiosyncratic Sergeant Cuff and Franklin piece together a puzzling series of events as mystifying as an opium dream and as deceptive as the nearby Shivering Sand. T. S. Eliot famously described THE MOONSTONE as ‘the…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780140434088 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0140434089 |
| Author: | Wilkie Collins, Sandra Kemp |
| Publisher: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Imprint: | Penguin Classics |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 528 |
| Edition: | 2nd |
| Release Date: | 28 August 2003 |
| Weight: | 366g |
| Dimensions: | 198mm x 129mm x 25mm |
| Series: | Penguin Classics |
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“The first and greatest of English detective novels.” –T. S. Eliot
“The first and greatest of English detective novels.”–T. S. Eliot
About The Author
Wilkie Collins
William Wilkie Collins (8 January 1824 - 23 September 1889) was an English novelist, playwright, and short story writer. His best-known works are The Woman in White (1859), No Name (1862), Armadale (1866), and The Moonstone (1868), considered the first modern English detective novel.
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