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The Law and the Lady

(Oxford World's Classics)

By Wilkie Collins

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| Paperback | 9780192836793

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Probably the first full-length novel with a woman detective as its heroine, The Law and the Lady (1875) is a fascinating example of Collins' later fiction. Valeria Valerie Woodville's first act as a married woman is to sign her name incorrectly in the marriage register; this slip is followed
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This book is all about the unexpected, starting with the protagonist: a woman, a detective!, who decides to take on an investigation about her husband's past, to restore his name and to prove him innocent of a crime he didn't commit. It's probably the most advanced Victorian novel I've read so far; ... (continue)

This book is all about the unexpected, starting with the protagonist: a woman, a detective!, who decides to take on an investigation about her husband's past, to restore his name and to prove him innocent of a crime he didn't commit. It's probably the most advanced Victorian novel I've read so far; it deals with controversial issues in a very XX-Century-like way--I suppose Dickens was sleeping on his laurels as Collins was writing this one…
It misses the 5th star as the end is a little pale compared to the rest of the narrative, a sort of an anti-climax.

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