The moonstone.

A novel.

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Wilkie Collins: The moonstone. (1873, Harper & Brothers)

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.

491 pages

English language

Published Jan. 8, 1873 by Harper & Brothers.

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OCLC Number:
587940

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Subjects
  • Jewelry theft -- Fiction
  • Police -- England -- Fiction
  • East Indians -- England -- Fiction
  • England -- Fiction

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