The moonstone
By: Wilkie Collins ; with an introduction by P.D. James.
Series: Oxford world's classics ;; 1.; Oxford world's classics (Oxford University Press) ;; 1.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 1999
Place of publication: Oxford [England]; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 552
Subjects: Jewelry theft -- Fiction; Police -- England -- Fiction; East Indians -- England -- Fiction
Genres: Fiction.
Description: 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.