The Moonstone By Wilkie Collins - Wordsworth Classics Special edition ’ Cressida McLaughlin

’ Cressida McLaughlin

Now thrust into a fantastical world that's both exhilarating and terrifying

plans that will either end in the greatest happily ever after or the most exquisite tragedy

I despised her before I even knew her

The Moonstone By Wilkie Collins - Wordsworth Classics Special edition ’ Cressida McLaughlinIntroduction and Notes by David Blair, Rutherford College, University of Kent. The Moonstone, a priceless Indian diamond which had been brought to England as spoils of war, is given to Rachel Verrinder on her eighteenth birthday. That very night, the stone is stolen. Suspicion then falls on a hunchbacked housemaid, on Rachel's cousin Franklin Blake, on a troupe of mysterious Indian jugglers, and on Rachel herself. The phlegmatic Sergeant Cuff is