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The Great Valdez Sapphire
Anonymous · 1909 · Mystery & Detective
At a country-house dinner, a connoisseur encounters a notorious guest wearing a sapphire linked to an old family trust. When the Bishop of Northchurch asks him to judge another stone, expertise, inheritance and deception converge in a dangerous midnight test.
Inside this edition
Every LitLab edition is illustrated from the text itself — the world of the book mapped, its people drawn, its scenes staged. 17 plates are open to everyone in this book; here are 8 of them.
The World of The Great Valdez SapphireThe manor and the source-grounded geography of the story.
Uncle Paul's SuiteA source-grounded place and movement study.
The Hidden SafeA source-grounded place and movement study.
Northchurch and the TrustA source-grounded place and movement study.
A Jewel, a Trust, an ImpostureThe premise-level objects and tensions of the sapphire mystery.
The Great Valdez Sapphire — Principal CharactersThe approved identity source for all seven principal figures.
Uncle Paul — The ConnoisseurAn approved Motor 1 identity and continuity study.
Leta Acton — The Protective HostessAn approved Motor 1 identity and continuity study.
This edition
- Title
- The Great Valdez Sapphire
- Author
- Anonymous
- First published
- 1909
- Illustrated plates
- 51 original artworks · 17 open to everyone
- Chapters
- 1 · about 7,981 words
- Reading time
- 32 min
- Language
- EN
- Formats
- Read online · EPUB and PDF download with a subscription
- Publisher
- LitLab — The Illustrated Classics
- On LitLab since
- September 2026
- Rights
- Text in the public domain. Illustrations and edition © LitLab.
- Source text
- Project Gutenberg #2038
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