The Moonstone || Out of Print Audiobooks || Wilkie Collins || Michael Pennington || Terence Hardiman

The Moonstone – the first longest and the best of modern English detective novels – tells of a huge yellow diamond of unearthly beauty, originally stolen from a shrine in India and given to Rachel Verinder on her eighteenth birthday. That very night the moonstone is stolen… Many are suspected of the theft, even Rachel herself, and the truth of the matter lies concealed under a wealth of possibilities. Collins’s narrative is compelling and constantly surprising, and the mystery and suspense that pervade this remarkable story are woven with unsurpassed mastery and skill.