The Moonstone
Start Publishing LLC · Print & ebook · February 20, 2013
A Classics pick for readers exploring The Moonstone.
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- Who it’s for
- A stolen diamond opens into a layered Victorian puzzle where appearances rarely settle anything.
- Themes
- Stolen cultural treasure, Suspicion and deception
- Genres
- Historical Mystery, The Classics, British Mystery
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Rachel's eighteenth birthday is celebrated with a large party. She wears the Moonstone on her dress that evening for all to see, including some Indian jugglers who have come to entertain. 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.
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Later that night, the diamond is stolen from Rachel's bedroom, and a period of turmoil, unhappiness, misunderstandings, and ill-luck ensues. The bemused butler, the love-stricken housemaid, the enigmatic detective Sergeant Cuff, the drug-addicted scientist-- each speculate on the mystery, but in mid-Victorian England no one is what they seem, and nothing can be taken for granted.
A Many-Sided Mystery
A stolen diamond opens into a layered Victorian puzzle where appearances rarely settle anything.
Come here for
- A country-house theft with a long history behind the jewel
- Several intriguing minds turning over the same mystery
Expect
- A bemused butler, a love-stricken housemaid, and Sergeant Cuff among the speculators
- Mid-Victorian uncertainty, where no one is quite as they seem
Where it sits
| Historical Mystery | 61% |
|---|---|
| British Mystery | 33% |
| The Classics | 25% |
Percentages are BookFrontier’s reading of the book.
Publisher categories
- Suspense
- Crime Fiction
- Authors
- Wilkie Collins
- Publisher
- Start Publishing LLC
- Published
- February 20, 2013
- Format
- Print & ebook
- Theme
- Stolen cultural treasure · Suspicion and deception
- Reading lane
- Suspense