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From: Sunday Gazette-Mail
Date: 20070107
Author:Regina Holbert

After a break for the holidays, the Monday Book Club will begin 2007 with "The Moonstone" by Wilkie Collins. Collins' 1871 novel is the first book in the club's yearlong look at British fiction titled "Mysteries, Spies and Murder Most Foul."

The plot is built around the theft of a fabulous Indian gem called the Moonstone. The story, at times told by several different narrators, includes all the ingredients for a traditional mystery: a manor house in the English countryside complete with a fetching heroine and an assortment of suspicious and outspoken servants, a hero ...

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