A beautiful diamond - with a terrible curseWhen Rachel Verinder is given the Moonstone - a large Indian diamond - on her eighteenth birthday, she is delighted to show it off at her celebrations. But that very night, the jewel is stolen from her bedroom. As suspicion falls on each member of the party, the curse of the diamond strikes - and ill-luck threatens to destroy them all.Will the noted detective Sergeant Cuff be able to solve the mystery? Or will the strange case of hypnotism, opium and Indian jugglers defeat even his brilliant mind?
Autorentext
Autorentext
William Wilkie Collins (8 January 1824 - 23 September 1889) was an English novelist, playwright, and short story writer. His best-known works are The Woman in White (1859), No Name (1862), Armadale (1866), and The Moonstone (1868), considered the first modern English detective novel.
Titel
Moonstone
Autor
EAN
9780141909264
ISBN
978-0-14-190926-4
Format
E-Book (epub)
Hersteller
Herausgeber
Genre
Veröffentlichung
26.11.1998
Digitaler Kopierschutz
Adobe-DRM
Dateigrösse
0.8 MB
Anzahl Seiten
640
Jahr
1998
Untertitel
Englisch
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