hoosteeno reviewed The Moonstone by Wilkie Collins
Great fun
5 stars
The characters in this book are so fun to read about. Very enjoyable.
557 pages
English language
Published Jan. 8, 2002 by ImPress.
Wilkie Collins: The moonstone (2002, ImPress)
- ISBN:
- 978-0-7621-8873-4
- OCLC Number:
- 48390730
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5 stars
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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