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Title: |
The Moonstone |
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| By (author): |
Wilkie Collins Edited by: Steve Farmer |
| ISBN10-13: |
1551112434 : 9781551112435 |
| Format: |
Paperback |
| Pages: |
719 |
| Weight: |
.837 Kg. |
| Published: |
Broadview Press - March 1999 |
| List Price: |
21.50 Pounds Sterling |
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In Stock
Qty Available: 3 |
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| Intrigue, investigations, thievery, drugs and murder all make an appearance in Collinsâ s classic who-done-it, The Moonstone. Published in serial form in 1868, it was inspired in part by a spectacular murder case widely reported in the early 1860s. Collinsâ s story revolves around a diamond stolen from a Hindu holy place. On her eighteenth birthday, Rachel Verinder receives the diamond, but by the following morning the stone has been stolen again. As the story unravels through multiple eyewitness accounts, the elderly Sergeant Cuffâ with a face â sharp as a hatchetâ â looks for the culprit. One of Collinsâ s best-loved novels, with an exciting plot moved along by deftly-drawn characters and elegant pacing, The Moonstone was also turned into a play by Collins; the play appears as an appendix to this edition. |
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