TY - BOOK AU - Collins,Wilkie TI - The Moonstone SN - 0582418224 AV - PR4494 .M62 1999 PY - 1999///,©1993 CY - Hertfordshire PB - Wordsworth KW - Readers for new literates KW - High interest-low vocabulary books KW - English language KW - Textbooks for foreign speakers KW - Jewelry theft KW - Fiction KW - Diamonds KW - Police KW - England KW - East Indians KW - Country homes KW - Great Britain KW - Social life and customs KW - 19th century N1 - Complete and unabridged N2 - The Moonstone is an ancient Indian diamond which brings disaster to everyone who owns it. Rachel Verinder's uncle gives her the diamond as a birthday present, but that same night it is stolen. The Moonstone is now seen as the first, and one of the best, English detective novels ER -