The Moonstone
Author: Wilkie Collins
‘When you looked down into the stone, you looked into a yellow deep that drew your eyes into it so that they saw nothing else’The Moonstone, a yellow diamond looted from an Indian temple and believed to bring bad luck to its owner, is bequeathed to Rachel Verinder on her eighteenth birthday. That very night the priceless stone is stolen again and when Sergeant Cuff is brou….Read More
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