English language
Published May 21, 2014 by Addison Wesley.
4 stars
(1 review)
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
- Fiction, crime
- Fiction, mystery & detective, police procedural
- England, fiction