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THE LAW AND THE LADY - WILKIE COLLINS KARTONIER...

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
tangledworkings 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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