Wilkie Collins’s most famous book.
In this work, the features of the classic detective novel blend naturally with elements of an adventure and an audacious, daring romance.
The Moonstone—an enormous yellow diamond that once adorned the brow of the god of the Moon in one of the sacred Indian temples—is given to Rachel Verinder on her eighteenth birthday. But that same night the stone is stolen. The investigation is entrusted to England’s best detective—a sergeant Cuff.