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Moonstone : Introduction by Catherine Peters by Wilkie Collins (1992, Hardcover)
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Product Identifiers
PublisherKnopf Doubleday Publishing Group
ISBN-100679417222
ISBN-139780679417224
eBay Product ID (ePID)48051
Product Key Features
Book TitleMoonstone : Introduction by Catherine Peters
Number of Pages528 Pages
LanguageEnglish
Publication Year1992
TopicThrillers / Crime, Classics, Mystery & Detective / Police Procedural, Literary, Mystery & Detective / Traditional
GenreFiction
AuthorWilkie Collins
Book SeriesEveryman's Library Classics Ser.
FormatHardcover
Dimensions
Item Height1.2 in
Item Weight20.2 Oz
Item Length8.3 in
Item Width5.2 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceTrade
LCCN92-052918
Dewey Edition23
TitleLeadingThe
Reviews"The first and greatest of English detective novels." --T. S. Eliot From the Trade Paperback edition.
Dewey Decimal823/.8
SynopsisThe Moonstone is a stunning yellow diamond the size of a bird's egg that glows like the harvest moon and harbors a flaw in its brilliant depths. Inherited by the beautiful young Englishwoman Rachel Verinder, it is also a sacred talisman to the Hindu priests who hope to bring it back to their holy city in India, from which it was looted long ago. The diamond's disappearance sets in motion an intricately plotted mystery. Wilkie Collins gives the reader all the necessary pieces to the puzzle, but they are so cleverly disguised that his surprise ending takes the breath away. The elements that make up The Moonstone-- a purloined jewel that carries a mysterious curse, an indefatigable British police sergeant, a drama of theft and murder in a spacious country house--have been repeated, in varying guises, throughout much of the avalanche of detective fiction that followed Collins's immensely popular 1868 novel. But none of those books has surpassed the richness and suspense of the storytelling of The Moonstone , the first detective novel and the continuing standard of its genre. Introduction by Catherine Peters
LC Classification NumberPR4494.M62 1992
