The Moonstone
Author : Wilkie Collins
Publisher : Harper & Brothers
Release Date : 1868
ISBN 10 : IND:30000007708815
Pages : 223 pages
Rating : 4./5 ( downloads)
Download The Moonstone PDF Format Full Free by Wilkie Collins and published by Harper & Brothers. This book was released on 1868 with total page 223 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Moonstone concerns the huge yellow diamond of the title that was once stolen from an Indian shrine. Rachel Verrinder receives the stone as a gift and does not realise that it has been passed to her in a sinister form of revenge by John Herncastle who, it transpires, acquired the moonstone by means of murder and theft. The jewel also brings bad luck. The stone disappears on the very night it is given to Rachel, though, and the tale concerns the unveiling of the culprit after the intervention of Sergeant Cuff, a famous London detective. A maid who is under suspicion commits suicide and Rachel herself seems reticent when it comes to aiding the investigation. Mysterious Indians appear frequently and there is an air of confusion and the unknown until the mystery is eventually solved.