The Moonstone
The Moonstone by Wilkie Collins, published by Penguin Adult in 2010, is a classic work of fiction that spans 640 pages. This novel centers around the theft of a priceless yellow diamond, originally looted from an Indian temple and given to Rachel Verinder on her eighteenth birthday. The diamond mysteriously disappears again that very night, leading to a complex investigation involving various characters, including the eccentric Sergeant Cuff and Rachel’s suitor, Franklin Blake.
Readers will encounter a rich narrative that delves into themes of mystery and crime, as the characters navigate a web of suspicion and intrigue. The story unfolds through a series of perspectives, presenting a detailed police procedural that captures the essence of detective fiction. Collins’s storytelling reveals layers of complexity and insight into human nature, making this edition a significant contribution to the genre.
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The Moonstone, a priceless yellow diamond, is looted from an Indian temple and maliciously bequeathed to Rachel Verinder. On her eighteenth birthday, her friend and suitor Franklin Blake brings the gift to her. That very night, it is stolen again. No one is above suspicion, as the idiosyncratic Sergeant Cuff and the Franklin piece together a puzzling series of events as mystifying as an opium dream and as deceptive as the nearby Shivering Sand. T. S. Eliot famously described THE MOONSTONE as ‘the first, the longest and the best of modern English detective novels’, but, as Sandra Kemp discusses in her introduction, it offers many other facets, which reveal Collins’s sensibilities as untypical of his era.
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