Mira James decides to try and find a diamond necklace that legend claims is lost at the bottom of Battle Lake, but when she discovers a dead body instead of the jewels, she is pulled into a murder mystery that shakes the small town to its core.

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. Hailed by T. S. Eliot as "the first, the longest, and the best of modern English detective novels,"...