496 pages
English language
Published Nov. 15, 2001 by Modern Library.
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One of the first English detective novels, this mystery involves the disappearance of a valuable diamond, originally stolen from a Hindu idol, given to a young woman on her eighteenth birthday, and then stolen again. A classic of 19th-century literature.
Subjects
- Jewelry theft -- Fiction
- Police -- England -- Fiction
- East Indians -- England -- Fiction
- England -- Fiction