Paperback, 590 pages
Published May 1, 2003 by Fischer (Tb.), Frankfurt.
Paperback, 590 pages
Published May 1, 2003 by Fischer (Tb.), Frankfurt.
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.