| The Law and the Lady by Wilkie Collins, Fiction, Classics, Mystery & Detective, Women Sleuths Contributor(s): Collins, Wilkie (Author) |
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ISBN: 1592244068 ISBN-13: 9781592244065 Publisher: Wildside Press OUR PRICE: $15.26 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: September 2003 * Not available - Not in print at this time *Annotation: Three years ago, her husband stood accused of murder -- and the verdict that came in from the jury was the Scottish Verdict, Not Proven. The jury had not evidence enough to convict him -- nor enough to comfortably exonerate him. Eustace could not bear the weight of her discovery; he fled to the continent, to live in anonymity. But Valeria knew her husband, and she loved him. She knew he was innocent, too, with the sort of intuition that guides the lucky flawlessly. And she set out to prove it to the world. * Valeria Woodville is one of English literature's earliest women detectives -- that makes the novel historically remarkable. But it's also a great fun mystery, full of plot and circumsance, and a rogue's gallery of odd Dickensian characters. The Law and the Lady is as remarkable a novel today as it was when it was first published in 1875. |
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| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Mystery & Detective - Women Sleuths - Fiction | Classics |
| Dewey: FIC |
| Lexile Measure: 950 |
| Physical Information: 0.78" H x 6" W x 9" (1.12 lbs) 348 pages |
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Contributor Bio(s): Collins, Wilkie: - "William Wilkie Collins (1824 - 1889) was an English novelist, playwright and short story writer. His best-known works are The Woman in White (1859), No Name (1862), Armadale (1866) and The Moonstone (1868). The last is considered the first modern English detective novel. Born into the family of painter William Collins in London, he lived with his family in Italy and France as a child and learned French and Italian. After his first novel, Antonina, was published in 1850, he met Charles Dickens, who became a close friend, mentor and collaborator. Some of Collins's works were first published in Dickens' journals All the Year Round and Household Words and the two collaborated on drama and fiction. Collins was critical of the institution of marriage and never married; he split his time between Caroline Graves, except for a two-year separation, and his common-law wife Martha Rudd, with whom he had three children." |