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The Moonstone
Wilkie Collins
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Description for The Moonstone
Paperback. When Rachel Verinder receives a gift of an astonishing yellow diamond from her bitter old uncle for her eighteenth birthday, she has no idea that the stone brings great danger with it. When the diamond goes missing during the night the ensuing investigations gradually bring to light the sinister history of the jewel. Num Pages: 496 pages. BIC Classification: FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 129 x 34. Weight in Grams: 348.
'The first, the longest, and the best of modern English detective novels' T S Eliot
When Rachel Verinder receives a gift of an astonishing yellow diamond from her bitter old uncle for her eighteenth birthday, she has no idea that the stone brings great danger with it. When the diamond goes missing during the night the ensuing investigations gradually bring to light the sinister history of the jewel and the passions and plots of those close to Rachel.
'Probably the very finest detective story ever written' Dorothy L. Sayers
**AS DISCUSSED ON BBC2'S BETWEEN THE COVERS**
Product Details
Publisher
Vintage Publishing United Kingdom
Number of pages
496
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Condition
New
Number of Pages
496
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780099519003
SKU
V9780099519003
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About Wilkie Collins
Wilkie Collins (Author) Wilkie Collins was born in London on 8 January 1824. His father was the landscape painter William Collins. After school he worked for a tea merchant before studying to become a lawyer. In 1848 he published a biography of his father and his first novel, Antonina, followed in 1850. In 1851 he met Charles Dickens ... Read more
Reviews for The Moonstone
Perfect for long, cold, winter evenings
The Times
A whodunit about a lost jewel with several different narrators 'the first English detective story' is so ingenious, so melodramatically rational, so druggy and glittery and cleverly elusive, that it triumphs over all its impersonators
Observer
A great, bold, theatrical mystery story which never falters, written with huge ... Read more
The Times
A whodunit about a lost jewel with several different narrators 'the first English detective story' is so ingenious, so melodramatically rational, so druggy and glittery and cleverly elusive, that it triumphs over all its impersonators
Observer
A great, bold, theatrical mystery story which never falters, written with huge ... Read more