The Law and the Lady

Wilkie Collins

• Publisher: Aeterna Classics
• Year: 2018
• eBook ISBN: 9783963769702
• Topic: Literature
• Subtopic: Historical Fiction
• Index: Literature

Three years ago, her husband stood accused of murder -- and the verdict that came in from the jury was the Scottish Verdict, Not Proven. The jury had not evidence enough to convict him -- nor enough to comfortably exonerate him. Eustace could not bear the weight of her discovery; he fled to the continent, to live in anonymity. But Valeria knew her husband, and she loved him. She knew he was innocent, too, with the sort of intuition that guides the lucky flawlessly. And she set out to prove it to the world. * Valeria Woodville is one of English literature's earliest women detectives -- that makes the novel historically remarkable. But it's also a great fun mystery, full of plot and circumsance, and a rogue's gallery of odd Dickensian characters. The Law and the Lady is as remarkable a novel today as it was when it was first published in 1875.

Table of contents

• PART I. PARADISE LOST.
• CHAPTER I. THE BRIDE’S MISTAKE.
• CHAPTER II. THE BRIDE’S THOUGHTS.
• CHAPTER III. RAMSGATE SANDS.
• CHAPTER IV. ON THE WAY HOME.
• CHAPTER V. THE LANDLADY’S DISCOVERY.
• CHAPTER VI. MY OWN DISCOVERY.
• CHAPTER VII. ON THE WAY TO THE MAJOR.
• CHAPTER VIII. THE FRIEND OF THE WOMEN.
• CHAPTER IX. THE DEFEAT OF THE MAJOR.
• CHAPTER X. THE SEARCH.
• CHAPTER XI. THE RETURN TO LIFE.
• CHAPTER XII. THE SCOTCH VERDICT.
• CHAPTER XIII. THE MAN’S DECISION.
• CHAPTER XIV. THE WOMAN’S ANSWER.
• PART II. PARADISE REGAINED.
• CHAPTER XV. THE STORY OF THE TRIAL. THE PRELIMINARIES.
• CHAPTER XVI. FIRST QUESTION—DID THE WOMAN DIE POISONED?
• CHAPTER XVII. SECOND QUESTION—WHO POISONED HER?
• CHAPTER XVIII. THIRD QUESTION—WHAT WAS HIS MOTIVE?
• CHAPTER XIX. THE EVIDENCE FOR THE DEFENSE.
• CHAPTER XX. THE END OF THE TRIAL.
• CHAPTER XXI. I SEE MY WAY.
• CHAPTER XXII. THE MAJOR MAKES DIFFICULTIES.
• CHAPTER XXIII
• CHAPTER XXIV. MISERRIMUS DEXTER—FIRST VIEW.
• CHAPTER XXV. MISERRIMUS DEXTER—SECOND VIEW
• CHAPTER XXVI. MORE OF MY OBSTINACY.
• CHAPTER XXVII. MR. DEXTER AT HOME.
• CHAPTER XXVIII. IN THE DARK.
• CHAPTER XXIX. IN THE LIGHT.
• CHAPTER XXX. THE INDICTMENT OF MRS. BEAULY.
• CHAPTER XXXI. THE DEFENSE OF MRS. BEAULY.
• CHAPTER XXXII. A SPECIMEN OF MY WISDOM.
• CHAPTER XXXIII. A SPECIMEN OF MY FOLLY.
• CHAPTER XXXIV. GLENINCH.
• CHAPTER XXXV. MR. PLAYMORE’S PROPHECY.
• CHAPTER XXXVI. ARIEL.
• CHAPTER XXXVII. AT THE BEDSIDE.
• CHAPTER XXXVIII. ON THE JOURNEY BACK.
• CHAPTER XXXIX. ON THE WAY TO DEXTER.
• CHAPTER XL. NEMESIS AT LAST.
• CHAPTER XLI. MR. PLAYMORE IN A NEW CHARACTER.
• CHAPTER XLII. MORE SURPRISES.
• CHAPTER XLIII. AT LAST!
• CHAPTER XLIV. OUR NEW HONEYMOON.
• CHAPTER XLV. THE DUST-HEAP DISTURBED.
• CHAPTER XLVI. THE CRISIS DEFERRED.
• CHAPTER XLVII. THE WIFE’S CONFESSION.
• CHAPTER XLVIII. WHAT ELSE COULD I DO?
• CHAPTER XLIX. PAST AND FUTURE.
• CHAPTER L.