by Wilkie Collins
Dramatised as a serial inelevenparts by Howard Agg
9—' Eye-Witness ' and Produced by Martyn C. Webster
Sergeant Cuff predicted that the Moonstone would be heard of again-the next time in London-and he is soon proved right. It is discovered that a rare oriental diamond has been pledged to a money-lender in Lambeth and that the stone now lies in the bank, awaiting the day when it will be either redeemed or forfeited.
In Yorkshire, Franklin Blake and Gabriel Betteredge have made a discovery : they have found, sunk in the sea by the Shivering Sand, a tin box containing the tell-tale garment with its smear of paint that had eluded Sergeant Cuff. It is a nightgown bearing the initials of Franklin Blake. Determined to exonerate himself, and to solve the mystery of the theft of the Moonstone, he approaches Sergeant Cuff and induces him to take up the case once more.