The Law and the Lady

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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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• English Books
• Hardcover 444 Pages
• ISBN-10: 0554264277
• ISBN-13: 9780554264271
• Publisher: BiblioLife
• Pub date: Aug 01, 2008
• Dimensions: 252 mm x 181 mm x 26 mm Just how big is that?
• Also available as: Paperback, Library Binding, Others and eBook

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