The stone of the title is an enormous diamond plundered from an Indian shrine after the Siege of Seringapatam. Given to Miss Verinder on her eightieth birthday. It mysteriously disappears that very night. Suspicion falls on three Indian jugglers who...
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The stone of the title is an enormous diamond plundered from an Indian shrine after the Siege of Seringapatam. Given to Miss Verinder on her eightieth birthday. It mysteriously disappears that very night. Suspicion falls on three Indian jugglers who have been seen in the neighbourhood. But all is not as it seems dark secrets lurk behind respectable facades and the trail of clues leads Sergeant Cluff elsewhere
The stone of the title is an enormous diamond plundered from an Indian shrine after the Siege of Seringapatam. Given to Miss Verinder on her eightieth birthday. It mysteriously disappears that very night. Suspicion falls on three Indian jugglers who...
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The stone of the title is an enormous diamond plundered from an Indian shrine after the Siege of Seringapatam. Given to Miss Verinder on her eightieth birthday. It mysteriously disappears that very night. Suspicion falls on three Indian jugglers who have been seen in the neighbourhood. But all is not as it seems dark secrets lurk behind respectable facades and the trail of clues leads Sergeant Cluff elsewhere.
The Moonstone is a 19th-century novel by the master of sensation fiction, Wilkie Collins. It is considered, with The Woman in White , to be his best work, and is also commonly seen as the first English detective novel. Many of the standard ground...
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The Moonstone is a 19th-century novel by the master of sensation fiction, Wilkie Collins. It is considered, with The Woman in White , to be his best work, and is also commonly seen as the first English detective novel. Many of the standard ground rules for detective fiction can be found in this work, as well as examples of Collins' forward-thinking approach to the treatment of Indians and servants
Title; Contents; Prologue; First Period; Second Period; First Narrative; Second Narrative; Third Narrative; Fourth Narrative; Fifth Narrative; Sixth Narrative; Seventh Narrative; Eighth Narrative; Epilogue; Endnotes;
