By the time <strong>The Law and the Lady</strong> appeared in 1875 The Woman in White and The Moonstone had already established Collins as the leading practitio... » 

By the time The Law and the Lady appeared in 1875 The Woman in White and The Moonstone had already established Collins as the leading practitioner of sensation fiction. The Law and the Lady builds on this tradition by introducing one of English literatures earliest women detectives valeria Woodville who investigates the murder of her husbands first wife in the attempt to prove him guiltless. «