by Wilkie Collins · Penguin Books, Limited (UK) · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780140620139
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«The Moonstone» is the mystery novel by Wilkie Collins, published by Penguin Books in paperback (464 pages, in English).
A yellow diamond stolen from an Indian temple is the legacy Rachel Verinder receives on her eighteenth birthday, and that very night it disappears. Sergeant Cuff investigates the theft among the members of the household, while several voices tell their versions of events in a story renowned as a pioneer of the detective novel.
Originally published in 1868, this Penguin Popular Classics edition contains the complete text in English.
For readers of English literature classics and Victorian mystery, especially those interested in the origins of the detective genre.
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.
