Each book features a brand new biography and glossary of Literary, Gothic and Victorian terms. Discover a storehouse of tales gathered specifically for the reader of the fantastic. Told from the viewpoints of various vivid characters, Collins spins a tale of intrigue with many a wrong-turn as the moonstone leaves a path of destruction in its wake.įLAME TREE 451: From mystery to crime, supernatural to horror and fantasy to science fiction, Flame Tree 451 offers a healthy diet of werewolves and mechanical men, blood-lusty vampires, dastardly villains, mad scientists, secret worlds, lost civilizations and escapist fantasies. When the stone goes missing, Sergeant Cuff is faced with a myriad of possible culprits, from mysterious Indian jugglers who may not be all they seem, to a very oddly acting maidservant.
Rachel inherits the moonstone from her uncle on her 18th birthday, a cursed diamond of sacred importance stolen from India. Transported from the temples of India to atmospheric Victorian England, the scene is set for a tale which twists between death, drugs, mystery and, most of all, misdirection. First featured in Charles Dickens' All the Year Round.
A pacy tale from the original master of detective fiction Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone is a novel by Wilkie Collins that was an early work of detective fiction from the Victorian age, published in 1868.
A thrilling tale of mystery and crime from a master storyteller.
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