Mystery

The Moonstone

by Wilkie Collins

A cursed Indian diamond vanishes from a Yorkshire country house on the night of a birthday party, and the household tells the story in turns, each witness a little less reliable than the last. T. S. Eliot called it the first, the longest and the best of modern English detective novels. Sergeant Cuff and his roses are worth the journey alone.

The librarian

Read it in the Library After Dark Or read it as plain text

Reading time

About 13 hr 10 min

Where to find it

The secret bookcase in the west wing

Edition

Project Gutenberg, eBook #155. In the public domain in the United States.