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The Moonstone (World Digital Library Edition)

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The moonstone, an enormous yellow diamond of unearthly beauty and value, stolen from a Hindu idol, is given to Rachael Verinder as an eighteenth birthday present and, on that same night is then stolen again. Miss Verinder believes that her lover, Franklin Blake, is the thief; but there are other suspects including Godfrey Ablewhite, Blake’s rival for Miss Verinder, and three mysterious Brahmins. Then Ablewhite is found dead.

T. S. Eliot called The Moonstone “the first, the longest, and the best of modern English detective novels.” Few, if any, of Collins’s successors, have attempted anything so magnificent; have equalled his ability at creating mystery, suspense, and atmosphere; or have maintained the reader’s interest so compellingly. The Moonstone has remained a classic of 19th century literature.

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The moonstone, an enormous yellow diamond of unearthly beauty and value, stolen from a Hindu idol, is given to Rachael Verinder as an eighteenth birthday present and, on that same night is then stolen again. Miss Verinder believes that her lover, Franklin Blake, is the thief; but there are other suspects including Godfrey Ablewhite, Blake’s rival for Miss Verinder, and three mysterious Brahmins. Then Ablewhite is found dead.

T. S. Eliot called The Moonstone “the first, the longest, and the best of modern English detective novels.” Few, if any, of Collins’s successors, have attempted anything so magnificent; have equalled his ability at creating mystery, suspense, and atmosphere; or have maintained the reader’s interest so compellingly. The Moonstone has remained a classic of 19th century literature.

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