The Moonstone

A cursed Indian diamond vanishes from an English country house, and everyone becomes a suspect. Wilkie Collins's pioneering mystery unfolds through many voices toward a genuinely surprising solution.

At a glance A great yellow diamond, gifted on a birthday and gone by morning, throws a respectable… Wilkie Collins's The Moonstone is often called the first true detective novel, and it… What it's about A precious gem with a long and bloody history in India passes to a young… As an eccentric police detective investigates, the mystery is told through a sequence of…

A precious gem with a long and bloody history in India passes to a young Englishwoman on her birthday, only to disappear from her family's country house that very night.