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A landmark Victorian detective novel by Wilkie Collins, The Moonstone opens when the young heiress Rachel Verinder receives a priceless yellow diamond plundered from a sacred Indian temple as her eighteenth birthday gift. Mere hours later, the gem vanishes from her locked bedchamber. As the investigation unfolds, a disgraced housemaid's tragic secret, three disguised Indian priests tracking the gem across continents, an opium-fueled blackout, and a beloved philanthropist's hidden greed are gradually uncovered across multiple first-person narratives. Widely regarded as the foundational English detective novel, this twisty, atmospheric whodunit defined genre tropes still used today, with rich 19th-century British country house and London street settings.
