hoosteeno reviewed The Moonstone by Wilkie Collins
Great fun
5 stars
The characters in this book are so fun to read about. Very enjoyable.
496 pages
English language
Published Aug. 22, 2001 by Modern Library.
Wilkie Collins: The moonstone (2001, Modern Library)
- ISBN:
- 978-0-375-75785-3
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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
- Police -- England -- Fiction
- East Indians -- England -- Fiction
- England -- Fiction