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The Moonstone

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Released on 2001

About the Book

"When you looked down into the stone, you looked into a yellow deep that drew your eyes into it so that they saw nothing else."

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.

Sandra Kemp’s introduction examines
The Moonstone as a work of Victorian sensation fiction and an early example of the detective genre, and discusses the technique of multiple narrators, the role of opium, and Collins’s sources and autobiographical references.

All Editions

9780375757853
Paperback, 14th Edition
ISBN13: 9780375757853
Modern Library, 2001
9780140434088
Paperback, 13th Edition
ISBN13: 9780140434088
Penguin Classics, 1999
9781853260445
Paperback, 11th Edition
ISBN13: 9781853260445
Wordsworth Editions Ltd, 1997