A new edition Wilkie Collins's classic novel with a new introduction by bestselling crime author Val McDermid The Moonstone, a yellow diamond looted from an Indian temple and believed to bring bad luck to its owner, is bequeathed to Rachel Verinder on her eighteenth birthday. That very night the priceless stone is stolen again and when Sergeant Cuff is brought in to investigate the crime, he soon realizes that no one in Rachel's household is above suspicion... "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