A new edition of Wilkie Collins's classic novel, The Moonstone, often cited as the first modern detective mystery novel. The titular "moonstone" is a seemingly supernatural Indian diamond of immense value whose properties wax and wane with the light of the moon. The Moonstone diamond is inherited by Rachel Verinder, a young Englishwoman, on her eighteenth birthday, only to have it mysterious vanish that night. Told from the perspective of multiple different characters, the plottraces the subsequent efforts by the amateur Franklin Blake and the Scotland Yard detective Sgt. Cuff to catch the thief and recover the diamond. The Moonstone was a sensation in its own time and is still popularly acclaimed today as one of the first and greatest works in the suspense/mystery genre.

"The first, the longest, and the best of modern English detective novels in a genre invented by Collins and not by Poe." - T.S. Eliot

"Probably the very finest detective story ever written." - Dorothy Sayers

"Probably the best detective tale in the world." - G.K. Chesterton

Wilkie Collins (1824 –1889) was an English novelist and playwright best known for The Woman in White (1859), No Name (1862), Armadale (1855), and The Moonstone (1868). Collins is considered by many to be the inventor of the modern English detective novel and was an early writer of "suspense" or "thriller" fiction. His works were and remain popular with both critics and the public, and he regularly is ranked among the most significant and influential English language novelists of all time.