The moonstone 18685/27/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() The soldier-a cruel and rapacious man-dies years later, leaving the diamond to his niece, Rachel Verinder. ![]() The novel opens with the theft of the legendary yellow diamond, which was purloined by an English soldier during a battle between Southern Indians and the British East India Company. This is not to say that The Moonstone isn’t a good book I just found it a little tough going at times. Many were the nights I fell asleep reading the novel I finally downloaded the Kindle version ( free!) and finished it while I was on vacation in late January. That obviously didn’t happen, partly because The Moonstone is very long: over 400 pages of small print. Well, I had never read The Moonstone, so I checked it out of the library at the end of December, thinking that I would indeed make it my first review of the new year. Reread it recently in a book group and we all agreed that it reads well, and is surprisingly current.” ![]() “If you have not read The Moonstone then that should be your first book of 2018. A few weeks ago, my friend Vallery suggested I read The Moonstone (1868), which is considered to be the first full-length detective novel (Edgar Allan Poe wrote some short-story mysteries in the 1840s). ![]()
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