The Moonstone by Wilkie Collins - ISBN: 9780375757853
Paperback
Stolen diamond, captivating narrators, love, theft, murder: a mystery unfolds.

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  • Paperback

    528 pages

  • Release Date

    15 September 2001

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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
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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Critics Review

“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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