The Moonstone
by Wilkie Collins
Wilkie Collins · 1800 · 448 pages
ISBN 9780375757853
One of the first English detective novels, this mystery involves the disappearance of a valuable diamond, originally stolen from a Hindu idol, given to a young woman on her eighteenth birthday, and then stolen again. A classic of 19th-century literature.
Themes: romance
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