TY - BOOK ID - 77894903 TI - The moonstone AU - Collins, Wilkie AU - Sutherland, John PY - 2008 SN - 0191605379 0191560669 0585361657 9780191560668 9780585361659 9780191605376 PB - Oxford, England ; New York, New York : Oxford University Press, DB - UniCat KW - East Indians -- England -- Fiction. KW - Jewelry theft -- Fiction. KW - Police -- England -- Fiction. KW - Jewelry theft KW - Police KW - East Indians KW - English KW - Languages & Literatures KW - English Literature KW - Asian Indians KW - Indians, East KW - Indians (India) KW - Indic peoples KW - Ethnology KW - Theft KW - Young women KW - Upper class KW - Diamonds KW - Native element minerals KW - Precious stones KW - Fashionable society KW - High society KW - Society, High KW - Upper classes KW - Social classes KW - England KW - Angleterre KW - Anglii︠a︡ KW - Inghilterra KW - Engeland KW - Inglaterra KW - Anglija KW - England and Wales UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:77894903 AB - John Sutherland provides a fascinating introduction to a new edition of what T.S.Eliot called 'the first and greatest of all English detective novels'. - ;'the first and greatest of English detective novels' T.S.Eliot A fabulous yellow diamond becomes the dangerous inheritance of Rachel Verinder. Outside her Yorkshire country house watch the Hindu priests who have waited for many years to reclaim their ancient talisman, looted from the holy city of Somnauth. When the Moonstone disappears the case looks simple, but in mid-Victorian England no one is what they seem, and nothing can be taken for ER -