![]() ![]() She is NOT Kinsey Milhone or Sharon McCone of course. Collins's heroine is in effect a detective, probably the first to appear in a novel - length story - her name is Valeria Woodhouse, write that down, mystery fans. It was written around the same time as Anna Katherine Greene was pioneering the female detective. “The Law and the Lady” is an eminently readable book, not hard to find even, having been reprinted by Oxford Classics. ![]() (In that case, is Mary Shelley worth investigating for her post Frankenstein's? Maybe Gutenberg is the on - line solution to this, because no book publisher is likely to reprint them.) What a pleasant surprise! This is not as great a novel as “The Moonstone” (1869) but it puts down the Eng - Lit Establishment dogma that his books deteriorated after that and are not worth reading. Never heard of this title before, but having some remains of an Amazon Xmas gift certificate, I sent off for a used copy. ![]() Somewhere recently on a mystery aficionado site on the Internet (forget which), I encountered favorable mention of a book from 1875 by Wilkie Collins of The Moonstone and The Woman in White fame. ![]()
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