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The Law and the Lady

✍ Scribed by Collins, Wilkie

Book ID: 107219658
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Year: 1970
Tongue: English
Weight: 227 KB
Category: Fiction

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✦ Synopsis

The Woman in White (1860) is a tale of mystery and mistaken identity told by its various characters in turn. From the moment when a lovely young woman suprises Walter Hartright in moonlit north London, Collins keeps the reader in suspense until the entire mesh of secrets is unwoven. In theMoonstone (1868) a fabulous yellow diamond disappears from the Verinders' country house in Yorkshire. Witnesses, suspects, and detectives all take up the story, and their narratives lead toward a melodramtic, unforeseeable conclusion. Valeria Woodville in The Law and the Lady (1875) must unravelthe secrets of her husband's earlier life; she takes the law into her own hands and becomes one of the first woman detectives in fiction.Collins's memorable, opinionated characters and his masterful control of pace and plot make thse early thrillers as racy and exciting as any written today.

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