The Moonstone

Author: Wilkie Collins
Categories: Novel, Detective fiction, Mystery. Epistolary novel. Horror fiction, Crime Fiction,

A debased Englishman steals the moonstone, a sacred gem, from India. It brings bad luck to each of its English possessors. When the gem disappears from a young Englishwoman’s room and three sinister Hindus menace her family, the careful, methodical Sergeant Cuff is assigned to the case.