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The Moonstone (Modern Library Classics)

by Wilkie Collins

ISBN13: 9780375757853
ISBN10: 0375757856
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The Moonstone is an enormous diamond, stolen from an Indian shrine and bequeathed to a young English heiress, Rachel Verinder, by a malicious uncle. When the cursed gem vanishes from Miss Verinder's bedroom, suspicion falls alternately on a lovesick, hunchbacked housemaid, a band of Indian jugglers, Rachel's beloved cousin, Franklin Blake, a sanctimonious suitor named Godfrey Ablewhite, and even Rachel herself. The eccentric Sergeant Cuff arrives to solve the mystery, employing clever methods of deductive reasoning that have since been employed by countless fictional detectives.

Told in vastly entertaining narratives (highlights include the comical house steward Gabriel Betteridge and the religious zealot, poor Miss Clack), the sensational mystery hinges on unrequited love, the avarice of an evangelical layman, the peculiar effects of opium, and the looming menace of a trio of Brahmins, determined to restore the stolen gem to its original shrine.

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"The first and greatest of English detective novels."

--T. S. Eliot

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"The Moonstone is a page-turner," writes Carolyn Heilbrun. "It catches one up and unfolds its amazing story through the recountings of its several narrators, all of them enticing and singular." Wilkie Collins’s spellbinding tale of romance, theft, and murder inspired a hugely popular genre–the detective mystery. Hinging on the theft of an enormous diamond originally stolen from an Indian shrine, this riveting novel features the innovative Sergeant Cuff, the hilarious house steward Gabriel Betteridge, a lovesick housemaid, and a mysterious band of Indian jugglers.

This Modern Library Paperback Classic is set from the definitive 1871 edition.

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Includes bibliographical references (p. [483]-494).

About the Author

Carolyn G. Heilbrun, Avalon Foundation Professor in the Humanities Emerita at Columbia University, has authored scholarly classics such as Writing A Woman's Life. As Amanda Cross she has written numerous bestselling Kate Fansler mysteries including Honest Doubt. She lives in New York City.

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ISBN:: 9780375757853
Introduction:: Heilbrun, Carolyn G.
Publisher:: Modern Library
Introduction:: Heilbrun, Carolyn G.
Author:: Collins, Wilkie
Location:: New York
Subject:: Classics
Subject:: Police
Subject:: England
Subject:: Mystery & Detective - Police Procedural
Subject:: Mystery fiction
Subject:: East Indians
Subject:: Jewelry theft
Edition Description:: Paperback
Series:: Modern Library Classics
Series Volume:: vol. VII, no 87.
Publication Date:: September 2001
Binding:: Paperback
Language:: English
Pages:: 528
Dimensions:: 818x518x93 95

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