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The Moonstone
One of the earliest examples of the detective novel, this taut and intricate mystery remains a classic work of Victorian literature The Moonstone, a yellow diamond looted from an Indian temple and believed to bring bad luck to its owner, is bequeathed to Rachel...
The Moonstone (Wordsworth Classics)
The Moonstone
The Moonstone (+Biography and Bibliography) (6X9po Glossy Cover Finish): Widely regarded as the precursor of the modern mystery and suspense novels, The Moonstone tells of the events surrounding the disappearance of a mysterious (and cursed) yellow diamond. T. S. Eliot called...
The Moonstone
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The Moonstone
The Moonstone
Who, in the name of wonder, had taken the Moonstone out of Miss Rachel's drawer? One of the great triumphs of nineteenth-century sensation fiction, The Moonstone tells of a mystery that for page after page becomes more not less inexplicable. A celebrated...
The Moonstone
Gorgeous new dark collectable edition of Wilkie Collins' timeless detective novel. Gorgeous collectable edition of The Moonstone, a thrilling tale from the original master of detective fiction Wilkie Collins. Transported from the temples of India to Victorian England,...
The Moonstone (Page Classics): The Pioneering D...
The Moonstone
HarperCollins is proud to present our range of timeless literary classics. 'The horrid mystery hanging over us in this house gets into my head like liquor, and makes me wild.' Centred around a glorious yellow diamond that carries with it a menacing history, The...
The Moonstone: Classic Illustrations
The Moonstone: Introduction by Catherine Peters
The Moonstone is a stunning yellow diamond the size of a bird's egg that glows like the harvest moon and harbors a flaw in its brilliant depths. Inherited by the beautiful young Englishwoman Rachel Verinder, it is also a sacred talisman to the Hindu priests who hope to bring...
The Moonstone
Designed to appeal to the book lover, the Macmillan Collector's Library is a series of beautifully bound pocket-sized gift editions of much loved classic titles. Bound in real cloth, printed on high quality paper, and featuring ribbon markers and gilt edges, Macmillan Collector's...
1946 FAMOUS CLASSIC MOONSTONE FIRST DETECTIVE N...
The Moonstone
Echoing the original World's Classics series, this title is one of an initial batch of 6 mini hardbacks produced to gift book standard with stitched binding, head and tail bands, printed on 60msg paper and featuring matt laminated jackets in a retro look design. P. D. James provides...
The Moonstone
The Moonstone
Wilkie Collins's classic tale of Rachel Verinder, a young Englishwoman who inherits a fabulous diamond (the eponymous Moonstone). The Moonstone has a long and fabled history tracing back to an group of Hindu priests ordered to guard it by Vishnu. After Rachel loses the Moonstone...
The Moonstone
The Moonstone
The Moonstone
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...
The Moonstone (Oxford World's Classics)
Called "the first and greatest of English detective novels" by T.S.Eliot, The Moonstone is a masterpiece of suspense. A fabulous yellow diamond becomes the dangerous inheritance of Rachel Verinder. Outside her Yorkshire country house watch the Hindu priests who have waited for...
The Moonstone
A priceless diamond has been stolen from an Indian temple and bequeathed to Rachel Verinder. On her birthday, her beau Franklin brings her the gift, only to have it stolen again. No one is above suspicion, as Franklin and Sergeant Cuff piece together the riveting puzzle...
The Moonstone (Penguin Classics) by Wilkie Coll...
The Moonstone.: Novel
The Moonstone (1868) by Wilkie Collins is a 19th-century British epistolary novel. It is generally considered to be the first detective novel, and it established many of the ground rules of the modern detective novel. The story was originally serialised in Charles Dickens' magazine...
The Moonstone
Intrigue, investigations, thievery, drugs and murder all make an appearance in Collins'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. Collins's story revolves around...
The Moonstone
Alongside Edgar Allan Poe in America, Britain's Wilkie Collins stands as the inventor of the modern detective story. The Moonstone introduces all the ingredients: a homey, English country setting, and a colorfully exotic background in colonial India; the theft of a fabulous diamond...
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