Moonstone
Summary

Wilkie Collins wrote two novels of great fame, The Woman in White and The Moonstone. Both are extremely accessible. However, while the former is a tale tinged with great sadness at the injustices of life, the latter is filled with superstition and the exotic. The Moonstone was published in 1868 and concerns the huge yellow diamond of the title that was once stolen from an Indian shrine. Rachel Verrinder receives the stone as a gift and does not realise that it has been passed to her in a sinister form of revenge by John Herncastle who, it transpires, acquired the moonstone by means of murder and theft. The jewel also brings bad luck. The stone disappears on the very night it is given to Rachel, though, and the tale concerns the unveiling of the culprit after the intervention of Sergeant Cuff, a famous London detective. A maid who is under suspicion commits suicide and Rachel herself seems reticent when it comes to aiding the investigation. Mysterious Indians appear frequently and there is an air of confusion and the unknown until the mystery is eventually solved.

Table of contents
Prologue
First Period, Chapter 1
First Period, Chapter 2
First Period, Chapter 3
First Period, Chapter 4
First Period, Chapter 5
First Period, Chapter 6
First Period, Chapter 7
First Period, Chapter 8
First Period, Chapter 9
First Period, Chapter 10
First Period, Chapter 11
First Period, Chapter 12
First Period, Chapter 13
First Period, Chapter 14
First Period, Chapter 15
First Period, Chapter 16
First Period, Chapter 17
First Period, Chapter 18
First Period, Chapter 19
First Period, Chapter 20
First Period, Chapter 21
First Period, Chapter 22
First Period, Chapter 23
Second Period, First Narrative, Chapter 1
Second Period, First Narrative, Chapter 2
Second Period, First Narrative, Chapter 3
Second Period, First Narrative, Chapter 4
Second Period, First Narrative, Chapter 5
Second Period, First Narrative, Chapter 6
Second Period, First Narrative, Chapter 7
Second Period, First Narrative, Chapter 8
Second Period, Second Narrative, Chapter 1
Second Period, Second Narrative, Chapter 2
Second Period, Second Narrative, Chapter 3
Second Period, Third Narrative, Chapter 1
Second Period, Third Narrative, Chapter 2
Second Period, Third Narrative, Chapter 3
Second Period, Third Narrative, Chapter 4
Second Period, Third Narrative, Chapter 5
Second Period, Third Narrative, Chapter 6
Second Period, Third Narrative, Chapter 7
Second Period, Third Narrative, Chapter 8
Second Period, Third Narrative, Chapter 9
Second Period, Third Narrative, Chapter 10
Second Period, Fourth Narrative, Chapter 1
Second Period, Fifth Narrative, Chapter 1
Second Period, Sixth Narrative, Chapter 1
Second Period, Seventh Narrative, Chapter 1
Second Period, Eighth Narrative, Chapter 1
Epilogue

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