Name: The Law and the Lady by Wilkie Collins, Fiction, Classics, Mystery & Detective, Women Sleuths
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Author: Collins, Wilkie ; Casil, Amy Sterling
ISBN: 9781592247554

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The Law and the Lady by Wilkie Collins, Fiction, Classics, Mystery & Detective, Women Sleuths

Type

Physical Book

Author

Wilkie Collins

Introduction by

Amy Sterling Casil

Publisher

Wildside Press

Language

English

Pages

348

Format

Hardcover

Dimensions

22.9 x 15.2 x 2.4 cm

Weight

0.66 kg.

ISBN13

9781592247554

Synopsis "The Law and the Lady by Wilkie Collins, Fiction, Classics, Mystery & Detective, Women Sleuths"

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. ustace 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.The Law and the Lady is as remarkable a novel today as it was when it was first published in 1875.

Wilkie Collins

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(London 1824-1889) Playwright, novelist, and prolific short story writer. At 17, he started working at a tea trading company while writing Ioláni, or Tahiti as it was (Gothic no. 32), a work that was not published until over a century after his death. He studied Law and, although he never practiced, he did use his legal knowledge in many of his works, and critics consider him one of the fathers of the detective genre. In 1851, he met Charles Dickens, with whom he formed a deep friendship and published his main works in his weekly All the Year Around. After Dickens' death in 1870, his popularity waned. He suffered from rheumatic gout which eventually led to an opium addiction. His tombstone epitaph highlights him as the author of the novel The Woman in White.

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