The moonstone

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Wilkie Collins: The moonstone (1993, Barnes and Noble)

472 pages

English language

Published Jan. 8, 1993 by Barnes and Noble.

ISBN:
978-1-56619-092-3
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OCLC Number:
29872915

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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.

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Subjects

  • Great Britain -- History -- 19th century -- Fiction
  • India -- History -- 19th century -- Fiction