{"product_id":"the-moonstone-paperback","title":"The Moonstone - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eWilkie Collins\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eSandra Kemp\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"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.\"\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe 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 brought in to investigate the crime, he soon realizes that no one in Rachel's household is above suspicion. Hailed by T. S. Eliot as \"the first, the longest, and the best of modern English detective novels,\" \u003ci\u003eThe Moonstone\u003c\/i\u003e is a marvellously taut and intricate tale of mystery, in which facts and memory can prove treacherous and not everyone is as they first appear. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eSandra Kemp's introduction examines \u003ci\u003eThe Moonstone\u003c\/i\u003e as a work of Victorian sensation fiction and an early example of the detective genre, and discusses the technique of multiple narrators, the role of opium, and Collins's sources and autobiographical references.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eWilkie (William) Collins\u003c\/b\u003e (1824-89) was a hugely successful and popular crime, mystery and suspense writer. He wrote the first full-length detective novels in English and set a mould for the genre as shown in \u003ci\u003eThe Moonstone\u003c\/i\u003e and \"The Woman in White.\" \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cb\u003eSandra Kemp\u003c\/b\u003e has edited Virginia Woolf's short stories and Rudyard Kipling's \u003ci\u003eDebits and Credits\u003c\/i\u003e for Penguin Classics.\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 528\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.95 x 7.78 x 5.14 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e June 01, 1999\u003c\/div\u003e\n                \u003cdiv\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAccelerated Reader:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n                \n                \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eQuiz Name:\u003c\/strong\u003e Moonstone\u003c\/div\u003e\n                \n                \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eInterest Level:\u003c\/strong\u003e Upper Grades, 9-12\u003c\/div\u003e\n                \n                \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eReading Level:\u003c\/strong\u003e 7.6\u003c\/div\u003e\n                \n                \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePoint Value:\u003c\/strong\u003e 34\u003c\/div\u003e\n                ","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42684528099391,"sku":"9780140434088","price":11.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0105\/8226\/1823\/files\/0f9d637076d964eb9c840a9f56777059.webp?v=1764967793","url":"https:\/\/dhl-adrianne.myshopify.com\/products\/the-moonstone-paperback","provider":"BBB","version":"1.0","type":"link"}