449 pages
English language
Published Jan. 8, 1982 by Bantam.
Wilkie Collins: The Moonstone (1982, Bantam)
449 pages
English language
Published Jan. 8, 1982 by Bantam.
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.