hoosteeno reviewed The Moonstone by Wilkie Collins
Great fun
5 stars
The characters in this book are so fun to read about. Very enjoyable.
498 pages
English language
Published Jan. 8, 2002 by Signet Classic.
The moonstone
5 stars
(1 review)
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.
Subjects
- Jewelry theft -- Fiction
- Country homes -- Fiction
- Police -- England -- Fiction
- East Indians -- England -- Fiction
- England -- Fiction