Wilkie Collins

La Pierre de lune est un tr s gros diamant jaune, incrust dans une statue hindoue repr sentant la lune. Il est vol par le colonel Herncastle durant la prise de Srirangapatna en 1799. sa mort, Herncastle offre le diamant sa ni ce, Miss Rachel Verinder. Selon son testament, il lui est remis le jour de son anniversaire. Mais peine en prend-elle possession, que le diamant lui est vol la nuit-m me, pendant son sommeil, dans un tiroir de sa chambre.

When Rachel Verinder's legacy of a priceless Indian diamond is stolen, all the evidence indicates that it is her beloved, Franklin Blake, who is guilty. Around this central axis of crime and thwarted love, Collins constructs an ingenious plot of teasing twists and surprises, and an elaborate multi-voiced narrative that sustains the tension all the way to its stunning ending. Described by T. S. Eliot as the first, the longest and the best of modern English detective novels, Wilkie Collins's The Moonstone is an important precursor of the modern mystery and suspense genres.