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The Moonstone

Wilkie Collins

Start date: August 1, 2014

Finish date: August 31, 2014

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Oct 09, 2009 Danielle The Book Huntress rated it really liked it

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It took me about seven months to finish this book. I listened to it at night on Kindle via text-to-speech. "The Moonstone" is a mystery involving the theft of an enormous Indian diamond called The Moonstone which is fated to be cursed. The mystery is who stole it the night of Miss Rachel Verinder's birthday. She had shortly received the diamond as a bequest from a deceased uncle, carried by the dashing young Mr. Franklin Blake on his travel to England.

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Mar 01, 2011 Kellyanne rated it really liked it · review of another edition

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I did not enjoy it as much as The Black Robe, but overall thought the book was very good.
I thought it was a bit long winded in parts and skipped over information in other parts.
The characters were rich and well developed.

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