Law and the Lady

Wilkie Collins gave the detective work to a woman in 1875, three decades before anyone else thought to. On her honeymoon, Valeria learns that her new husband was once tried for poisoning his first wife and released on the peculiarly Scottish verdict of 'Not Proven' - and resolves to uncover what a court would not. Her investigation leads to one of fiction's most unforgettable informants: the legle...