Books with title Moonstone

First published in 1868, Moonstone is considered the first modern English detective novel, and requires the entire cast of Recorded Books to bring it to life. The light that streamed from it was like the harvest moon: the Moonstone, a yellow diamond of unearthly beauty originally stolen from a shrine in India and presented to Rachel Verinder on her birthday. On that same night, the diamond was stolen again. What was the motive? Who was the thief?

When Danny and Sam return to the Beachcomber Inn to stay with Aunt Lou for the summer, they come face to face with unscrupulous journalist Scarlett Hardcastle. Scarlett, with her car-load of cages and specimen jars, has a plan that could destroy the Beachcombers - the tribe of secretive creatures that live in the tangled tunnels beneath Travin Cove.Danny and Sam must act fast to save the Beachcombers. But have they underestimated Scarlett's cunning and discovered a traitor too late? And do they understand the dangers of an ancient charm?For ages 8, 9, 10, 11, 12.The second in The Unravellers series.REVIEWSThis book is SO exciting! I love the Beachcombers - I think you will too! Milly Age 9Moonstones is funny and a bit scary too. Brilliant! Jack Age 10I love the pictures. Ruby Age 8

The Moonstone (1868) by Wilkie Collins is a 19th-century British epistolary novel, generally considered the first detective novel in the English language. The story was originally serialised in Charles Dickens' magazine All the Year Round. The Moonstone and The Woman in White are considered Wilkie Collins' best novels. Besides creating many of the ground rules of the detective novel, The Moonstone also reflected Collins' enlightened social attitudes in his treatment of the servants in the novel. Collins adapted The Moonstone for the stage in 1877, but the production was performed for only two months

Rachel opened the box and lifted out the diamond. She held it up in a ray of sunlight that poured through the window, and cried out in amazement. When Rachel Verinder inherits the Moonstone from her uncle on her eighteenth birthday, the wonderful jewel is intended to make her rich and happy. So why is her mother so worried about this valuable gift? Rachel seems very fond of her cousin, Franklin Blake. When trouble strikes, why does she refuse his help? What has he done to offend her? Can Sergeant Cuff, the famous detective, solve the dangerous mystery of the Moonstone before it is too late? Real Reads are accessible texts designed to support the literacy development of primary and lower secondary age children while introducing them to the riches of our international literary heritage. Each book is a retelling of a work of great literature from one of the world’s greatest cultures, fitted into a 64-page book, making classic stories, dramas and histories available to intelligent young readers as a bridge to the full texts, to language students wanting access to other cultures, and to adult readers who are unlikely ever to read the original versions.

Stolen from the forehead of a Hindu idol, the dazzling gem known as “The Moonstone” resurfaces at a birthday party in an English country home–with an enigmatic trio of watchful Hindu priests hot on its trail...Laced with superstitions, suspicion, humor, and romance, this mystery draws readers into a compelling tale with twists and turns ranging from sleepwalking to experimentation with opium. The book is regarded by some as the precursor of the modern mystery novel and suspense novels. T. S. Eliot called it "the first, the longest, and the best of modern English detective novels in a genre invented by Collins and not by Poe", and Dorothy L. Sayers praised it as "probably the very finest detective story ever written".