Wilkie Collins — The Moonstone

Gresham Publishing Hardback. The Moonstone, a yellow diamond looted from an Indian temple and believed to bring bad luck to its owner, is bequeathed to Rachel Verinder on her eighteenth birthday. That very night the priceless stone is stolen again and when Sergeant Cuff is brought in to investigate the crime, he soon realizes that no one in Rachel’s household is above suspicion. Hailed by T. S. Eliot as â€oethe first, the longest, and the best of modern English detective novels,” The Moonstone is a marvellously engrossing tale in which facts and memory can prove treacherous and not everyone is as they first appear. No DJ; Owner's Name inside. Owner's name signed & dated 1931; green boards with gold lettering on spine and bird on cover; spine very faded. Good.