![]() ![]() ![]() In love with Rachel she disowns her own feeling for him when his lies over his debts come to light. John Thomson as Detective Sergeant Cuffįranklin Blake returns to England for his father's funeral and to solve the theft of The Moonstone stolen the year before on his cousin Rachel's 18th birthday.Later that night, the diamond is stolen from Rachel's bedroom, and a period of turmoil, unhappiness, misunderstandings and ill-luck ensues in a complex plot to explain the theft, identify the thief, trace the stone and recover it. She wears the Moonstone on her dress that evening for all to see, including some Indian jugglers who have called at the house. Rachel's eighteenth birthday is celebrated with a large party, at which the guests include her cousin Franklin Blake. The diamond is of great religious significance as well as being extremely valuable, and three Hindu priests have dedicated their lives to recovering it. It is a legacy from her uncle, a corrupt British army officer who served in India. Rachel Verinder, a young English woman, inherits a large Indian diamond on her eighteenth birthday. Eliot as the first and greatest of English detective novels. It is an adaptation of the Wilkie Collins 1868 novel of the same name described by T.S. ![]() The Moonstone is a daytime drama series produced by King Bert Productions for BBC One. ![]()
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