'The light that streamed from it was like the light of the harvest moon...'
The Moonstone, a yellow diamond of unearthly beauty, originally stolen from a shrine in India, is given to Rachel Verinder as an eighteenth birthday present and, on that same night, stolen again...
T.S. Eliot described The Moonstone as 'The first, the longest, and the best of modern English detective novels.' In the infancy of a craft Wilkie Collins grasped the essential ingredients with the confident intuition of a master. Few of his successors have attempted anything on so magnificent a scale; few have equalled his ability at creating mystery, suspense and atmosphere; and hardly any could have maintained the reader's interest so unfalteringly over so many pages.
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