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The moonstone / with illustrations by William Sharp.
LIBRA - Special PR4494 .M6 1946
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Collins, Wilkie, 1824-1889.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Jewelry theft--Fiction.
- Jewelry theft.
- England.
- Police--England--Fiction.
- Police.
- East Indians--England--Fiction.
- East Indians.
- England--Fiction.
- Genre:
- Fiction.
- Mystery fiction.
- Penn Provenance:
- Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- 3 preliminary leaves, 3 unnumbered pages-444 pages : illustrations, color plates. ; 22 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Garden City, New York : Doubleday & Company, inc., 1946.
- Summary:
- Called "the first and greatest of English detective novels" by T.S. Eliot, The Moonstone is a masterpiece of suspense. A fabulous yellow diamond becomes the dangerous inheritance of Rachel Verinder. Outside her Yorkshire country house watch the Hindu priests who have waited for many years to reclaim their ancient talisman, Looted from the holy city of Somnauth. When the Moonstone disappears the case looks simple, but in mid-Victorian England no one is what they seem, and nothing can be taken for granted. Witnesses, suspects, and detectives each narrate the story in turn. The bemused butter, the love-stricken housemaid, the enigmatic detective Sergeant Cuff, the drug-addicted scientist -- each speculate on the mystery as Collins weaves their narratives together.
- Local Notes:
- Gotham Book Mart Collection copy has dustjacket retained.
- Other Format:
- Online version: Collins, Wilkie, 1824-1889. Moonstone.
- OCLC:
- 1281103
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