The Moonstone: With an introduction by Val McDermid

Written by Val McDermid and Wilkie Collins

Narrated by Ian Stewart and Patrick Tull

A new edition Wilkie Collins's classic novel with a new introduction by bestselling crime author Val McDermid
The Moonstone, a yellow diamond looted from an Indian temple and believed to bring bad luck to its owner, is bequeathed to Rachel Verinder on her eighteenth birthday. That very night the priceless stone is stolen again and when Sergeant Cuff is brought in to investigate the crime, he soon realizes that no one in Rachel's household is above suspicion…
"The first, the longest, and the best of modern English detective novels in a genre invented by Collins and not by Poe." - T.S. Eliot
"Probably the very finest detective story ever written." - Dorothy Sayers
"Probably the best detective tale in the world." - G.K. Chesterton

• Language: English
• Publisher: W. F. Howes Ltd
• Release date: Nov 2, 2023
• ISBN: 9781004140558

Val McDermid

Val McDermid is a number one bestseller whose novels have been translated into more than forty languages, and have sold over nineteen million copies. She has won many awards, including the CWA Gold Dagger the LA Times Book of the Year Award and the Cartier Diamond Dagger Award for outstanding achievement. She writes full-time and divides her time between Edinburgh and East Neuk of Fife.