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A diamond taken from an Indian shrine is left to a girl on her eighteenth birthday and vanishes from her sitting-room that night, and eleven witnesses tell the story in turn. T. S. Eliot called it the first and best English detective novel. Collins wrote most of it under laudanum for gout, and afterwards did not recognize parts of what he had dictated. Ninety-nine plates of painting range from Abraham Storck's Dutch fleet to Gainsborough's portraits, matching the novel's movement between Indian diamond and English drawing-room.
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LiteratureTable of contents
- Cover
- Copyright
- Prologue. The Storming of Seringapatam (1799):
- First Period. The Loss of the Diamond (1848)
- Chapter I
- Chapter II
- Chapter III
- Chapter IV
- Chapter V
- Chapter VI
- Chapter VII
- Chapter VIII
- Chapter IX
- Chapter X
- Chapter XI
- Chapter XII
- Chapter XIII
- Chapter XIV
- Chapter XV
- Chapter XVI
- Chapter XVII
- Chapter XVIII
- Chapter XIX
- Chapter XX
- Chapter XXI
- Chapter XXII
- Chapter XXIII
- Second Period. The Discovery of the Truth. (1848-1849.)
- First Narrative
- Chapter I
- Chapter II
- Chapter III
- Chapter IV
- Chapter V
- Chapter VI
- Chapter VII
- Chapter VIII
- Chapter I
- Chapter II
- Chapter III
- Chapter I
- Chapter II
- Chapter III
- Chapter IV
- Chapter V
- Chapter VI
- Chapter VII
- Chapter VIII
- Chapter IX
- Chapter X
- Fourth Narrative. Extracted from the Journal of Ezra Jennings.
- Fifth Narrative
- Chapter I
- Sixth Narrative. Contributed by Sergeant Cuff.
- Seventh Narrative. In a Letter from Mr. Candy.
- Eighth Narrative. Contributed by Gabriel Betteredge.
- Epilogue. The Finding of the Diamond
- About the Author
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