The Moonstone
About this book
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
- anger
- bantam
- british and irish fiction (fictional works by one author)
- classic literature
- classics
- collins
- compassion
- country homes
- crime, fiction
- death
- detective and mystery stories
- diamonds
- dictionaries
- drama
- east indians
- england, fiction
- english fiction
- english language
- english literature
- fear
- fiction
- fiction, crime
- fiction, mystery & detective, general
- fiction, mystery & detective, police procedural
- french
- history
- hypnotism
- jewelry theft
- joy
- kidnapping
- literature
- manners and customs
- moonstones
- murder
- mystery crime
- mystery fiction
- poison
- police
- readers
- romance
- social life and customs
- spanish
- swords
- the moonstone
- thievery
- upper class
- verinder, rachel (fictitious character), fiction
- wilkie
- william
- young women