The Law and the Lady

Wilkie Collins—founder of the English detective genre, an unsurpassed master of intrigue and an engaging plot. In his works, Collins skillfully combines moral realism and romance, horrors and mysteries, family curses and fateful prophecies.

The novel “Law and the Wife” is a synthesis of a traditional English family chronicle and a detective story, in which the main heroine learns, on the sixth day after her wedding, that her husband has another name and a secret…