The Law and the Lady

Introduces English Literature’s first female detective.

Despite the grave misgivings of both their families, Valeria Brinton and Eustace Woodville are married. But before long the new bride begins to suspect a dark secret in her husband’s past. When she discovers that he has been living under a false name, she determines to find out why he is concealing his true identity from her.

Soon she must endure an even greater shock – the revelation that her husband has been on trial fo…