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The Moonstone: A Novel
Wilkie Collins
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Description for The Moonstone: A Novel
Paperback. Num Pages: 560 pages, black & white illustrations, frontispiece. BIC Classification: FC; FF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 203 x 136 x 25. Weight in Grams: 440.
The Moonstone is one of the most famous suspense novels of all time: a masterpiece of construction and the ultimate page-turner, it introduced one of the world's most beloved genres, the detective story. At a party celebrating her eighteenth birthday, Rachel Verinder wears the stunning yellow diamond she unexpectedly inherited from her uncle, Colonel John Herncastle. She is not aware that the precious gem, known as the Moonstone, has been missing since it was plundered from a sacred Hindu shrine in southern India where her uncle had served with the British army fifty years ago. But someone ... Read more
The Moonstone is one of the most famous suspense novels of all time: a masterpiece of construction and the ultimate page-turner, it introduced one of the world's most beloved genres, the detective story. At a party celebrating her eighteenth birthday, Rachel Verinder wears the stunning yellow diamond she unexpectedly inherited from her uncle, Colonel John Herncastle. She is not aware that the precious gem, known as the Moonstone, has been missing since it was plundered from a sacred Hindu shrine in southern India where her uncle had served with the British army fifty years ago. But someone ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Bourbon Street Books
Condition
New
Number of Pages
560
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780062227317
SKU
V9780062227317
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About Wilkie Collins
Wilkie Collins (January 8, 1824-September 23, 1889) was the author of thirty novels, more than sixty short stories, fourteen plays (including an adaptation of The Moonstone), and more than one hundred nonfiction pieces. His best-known works are The Woman in White, The Moonstone, Armadale, and No Name.
Reviews for The Moonstone: A Novel
"The first, the longest, and the best of modern English detective novels in a genre invented by Collins and not by Poe."
T.S. Eliot, author of The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock "Probably the very finest detective story ever written."
Dorothy L. Sayers "Probably the best detective tale in the world."
G. K. Chesterton, author of ... Read more
T.S. Eliot, author of The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock "Probably the very finest detective story ever written."
Dorothy L. Sayers "Probably the best detective tale in the world."
G. K. Chesterton, author of ... Read more