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The Moonstone Paperback - 1999 - 1st Edition
by Collins, William Wilkie
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- Title The Moonstone
- Author Collins, William Wilkie
- Binding Paperback
- Edition number 1st
- Edition 1
- Condition Used - Good
- Pages 719
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Broadview Press, Peterborough, Ontario, Canada
- Publication date 1999-03-09
- Features Bibliography
- Bookseller's Inventory # GRP102786433
- ISBN 9781551112435 / 1551112434
- Weight 1.75 lbs (0.79 kg)
- Dimensions 8.5 x 5.4 x 1.3 in (21.59 x 13.72 x 3.30 cm)
- Reading level 710
- Category Literature - Classics / Criticism
- Dewey Decimal Code FIC
- Quantity available 1
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About this book
The Moonstone by Wilkie Collins is generally considered the first detective novel. It established many of the ground rules of the genre's formula. An enormous diamond is stolen from a Hindu temple and resurfaces at a birthday party in an English manor, and, with numerous narrators and suspects, the story weaves through superstitions, romance, humor, and suspicion to solve the mystery. The story was serialised in the magazine All the Year Round, starting on 4 January 1868 and completed on 8 August 1868.
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From the rear cover
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 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 Cuff--with a face "sharp as a hatchet"--looks for the culprit.
One of Collins'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.
