by Wilkie Collins · Wordsworth Editions Ltd · tapa blanda · ISBN 9781853260445
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«The Moonstone» is the mystery novel by Wilkie Collins, published by Wordsworth Editions Ltd in paperback (438 pages, in English).
Rachel Verinder receives a valuable yellow diamond from India on her eighteenth birthday; that same night, the jewel disappears from her room. Suspicion falls on servants, relatives and a group of Hindu jugglers. Sergeant Cuff and the butler Betteredge try to solve the case through the voices of several narrators.
Work originally published in 1868. Edition from the Wordsworth Classics collection, with introduction and notes by David Blair.
For readers of Victorian fiction and classic mystery: an English edition of a nineteenth-century title.
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.
