hoosteeno reviewed The Moonstone by Wilkie Collins
Great fun
5 stars
The characters in this book are so fun to read about. Very enjoyable.
502 pages
English language
Published Jan. 7, 2008 by Oxford University Press.
The moonstone (2008, Oxford University Press)
- ISBN:
- 978-0-19-953672-6
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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
- Young women -- England -- Fiction
- Diamonds -- India -- Fiction
- Jewelry theft -- Fiction
- Upper class -- England -- Fiction
- East Indians -- England -- Fiction