The Moonstone

Name: The Moonstone
Author: Wilkie Collins
ISBN: 9798475273906

by Wilkie Collins

1800 · mystery & crime · adult

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Set in 3 places · 2 primary

Sense of Place

4/5

Description · Open Library (CC0)

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.

Set in

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North Yorkshire, England · United Kingdom
Yorkshire coastal estate setting
★ primary
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Yorkshire Coast · United Kingdom
Primary country estate setting
★ primary
London · United Kingdom
London investigation scenes