The moonstone

498 pages

English language

Published Jan. 8, 2002 by Signet Classic.

ISBN:
978-0-451-52829-2
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OCLC Number:
48515748

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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.

146 editions

Subjects

  • Jewelry theft -- Fiction
  • Country homes -- Fiction
  • Police -- England -- Fiction
  • East Indians -- England -- Fiction
  • England -- Fiction