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Annotated edition of the one of the first full-length detective novels in the language. Notes and introduction by Sandra Kemp.
Synopsis
A priceless yellow diamond, is looted from an Indian temple and maliciously bequeathed to Rachel Verinder. On her eighteenth birthday, her friend and suitor Franklin Blake brings the gift to her. That very night, it is stolen again.