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The Law and the Lady

By Wilkie Collins

The Law and the Lady Classics

The Law and the Lady

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Valeria Woodville's first act as a married woman is to sign her name in the marriage register incorrectly, and this slip is followed by the gradual disclosure of a series of secrets about her husband's earlier life, each of which leads on to another set of questions and enigmas. Her discoveries prompt her to defy her husband's authority, to take the law into into a labyrinthine maze of false clues and deceptive identities, in which the exploration of the tangled workings of the mind becomes linked to an investigation into the masquerades of femininity.

Probably the first full-length novel with a woman detective as its heroine, The Law and the Lady is a fascinating example of Collins's later fiction. First published in 1875, it employs many of the techniques used in The Moonstone, developing them in bizarre and unexpected ways, and in its Gothic and fantastic elements The Law and the Lady adds a significant dimension to the history of detective fiction.
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Product details
Binding:
Paperback
Edition:
1
Number of Pages:
480
Release Date:
2008-09-15
Publication Date:
2008-09-15
Publisher:
Oxford University Press
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
0199538166
ISBN13:
9780199538164
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Weight:
340 g
Height:
127 cm
Width:
193 cm
Thickness:
28 cm
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