The Moonstone
$22.92
- Paperback
528 pages
- Release Date
15 September 2001
Summary
“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 popular genre-the detective mystery. Hinging on the theft of an enormous diamond originally stolen from an Indian shrine, this riveting novel features the innovative Sergeant Cuff, the hilarious house steward Gabriel Bet…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780375757853 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0375757856 |
| Author: | Wilkie Collins, Carolyn G. Heilbrun |
| Publisher: | Random House USA Inc |
| Imprint: | Modern Library Inc |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 528 |
| Edition: | New edition |
| Release Date: | 15 September 2001 |
| Weight: | 431g |
| Dimensions: | 202mm x 133mm x 28mm |
| Series: | Modern Library Classics |
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“The first and greatest of English detective novels.” –T. S. Eliot
“The first and greatest of English detective novels.”
–T. S. Eliot
About The Author
Wilkie Collins
Carolyn G. Heilbrun, Avalon Foundation Professor in the Humanities Emerita at Columbia University, has authored scholarly classics such as Writing A Woman’s Life. As Amanda Cross she has written numerous bestselling Kate Fansler mysteries including Honest Doubt. She lives in New York City.
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