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Gorgeous new dark collectable edition of Wilkie Collins' timeless detective novel.

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... Read Full Overview

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... Read Full Overview

Who, in the name of wonder, had taken the Moonstone out of Miss Rachel's drawer?

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Chiltern Publishing creates the most beautiful editions of the world's finest literature. Your favorite classic titles in a way you have never seen them before; the tactile layers, fine details and beautiful colors of these remarkable covers make these titles feel extra special... Read Full Overview

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... Read Full Overview

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... Read Full Overview

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... Read Full Overview

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... Read Full Overview

Stolen from the forehead of a Hindu idol, the dazzling gem known as "The Moonstone" resurfaces at a birthday party in an English country home -- with an enigmatic trio of watchful Brahmins hot on its trail. Laced with superstitions, suspicion, humor, and romance, this 1868 mystery... Read Full Overview

"The Moonstone is a page-turner," writes Carolyn Heilbrun. "It catches one up and unfolds its amazing story through the recountings of its several narrators, all of them enticing and singular." Wilkie Collins's spellbinding tale of romance, theft, and murder inspired a hugely... Read Full Overview

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...

In 'The Moonstone, ' Wilkie Collins masterfully weaves a tale of intrigue and suspense that laid the groundwork for the modern detective novel. This seminal work, published in 1868, centers around the mysterious theft of an invaluable diamond, stolen during an extravagant English... Read Full Overview