The moonstone

Description:

One of the first English detective novels, this mystery involves the disappearance of a valuable diamond, originally stolen from a Hindu idol, given to a young woman on her eighteenth birthday, and then stolen again. A classic of 19th-century literature.

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People: Wilkie Collins (1824-1889)

Places: England,  India,  Great Britain,  Ying guo

Times: 19th century,  18th Century,  Jin dai,  s. XIX,  1868