by Wilkie Collins · Montesinos Editor, S.A. · tapa dura · ISBN 9788485859948
VAT included
Hamelyn quality guarantee · checked and verified, or your money back
«La piedra lunar» is the mystery novel by Wilkie Collins, published by Montesinos Editor, S.A., in hardback (522 pages, in Spanish).
Rachel Verinder receives a valuable yellow diamond, the Moonstone, on her eighteenth birthday, and it disappears from her room that same night. The guests become suspects and Sergeant Cuff must solve the case amid contradictory testimonies; the jewel comes from a Hindu shrine, a past that complicates the investigation.
Novel originally published as «The Moonstone» in 1868. This edition includes an introduction by Jorge Luis Borges and a translation by Horacio Laurora.
For readers of mystery novels and Victorian classics, interested in the origins of the detective story.
William Wilkie Collins was an English novelist and playwright known especially for The Woman in White (1860), a mystery novel and early sensation novel, and for The Moonstone (1868), which established many of the ground rules of the modern detective novel and is also perhaps the earliest clear example of the police procedural genre.
