by Wilkie Collins
Dramatised as a serial in eleven parts by Howard Agg
4— ' The Tell-Tale Petticoat' and Produced by Martyn C. Webster
On the evening of Rachel Verinder 's birthday when, to the admiration of everyone present, she is wearing the moonstone as a brooch, the party is interrupted by the arrival of three Indians, who entertain the guests with a display of juggling. The following morning the jewel is not to be found, and the household is in an uproar. Franklin Blake urges Lady Verinder to call in the police, and later Superintendent Seegrave of the local constabulary arrives to investigate the mysterious theft of the jewel.
Soon convinced that a cleverer head is needed to solve the mystery, Franklin Blake telegraphs to his father in London, and there quickly arrives at Lady Verinder's house a man of lean and grizzled appearance with a surprising passion for roses-the celebrated detective, Sergeant Cuff.