Buku SMA Athalia
The moonstone
A fabulous gem is looted from a sacred Hindu shrine furing the siege of an Indian city. With his dying breath one of the shrine's guardians tells colonel John Herncastle that the Moonstone will have its revenge. Fifty years later, Herncastle bewuaths the diamond to his niece, Rachel Verinder, as an eighteenth-birthday gift. An act of generosity? or merely trying stansfer the curse ? Racher receives the jewel at a family gathering, but when the cext day daens it is nowhere to be found. Scotland yard's famed bloodhound sergeant cuff is soon on the case, but he is thrown when the prime suspect commits suicide..
Teasing, tortuonos and utterly gripping, the moonstone was hailed by T.S. Eliot as the first and best of modern english detective novels.
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