by Wilkie Collins
Dramatised as a serial in eleven parts by Howard Agg
11—' The Wheel of Fortune' and Other parts played by Tom Watson , Ian Sadler and members of the BBC Drama Repertory Company Produced by Martyn C. Webster
By the success of Ezra Jennings 's experiment the first half of the mystery of the moonstone has been solved: the second half, as to how the diamond came to be pledged to the money-lender, Septimus Luker , remains.
The day when the moonstone must be redeemed or forfeited has come, and opposite the bank in Lombard Street, Sergeant Cuff and Franklin Blake watch for the moment when Septimus Luker will come out with the jewel in his possession. As he does so, they see him stop and pass something to a man, dressed as a sailor, loitering on the pavement. The man hails a cab and Constable Jordan is ordered to follow him.