The Law and the Lady
1875
Three years after her husband's murder trial ended in a devastating Scottish verdict of 'Not Proven' - not guilty, but not innocent - Valeria Brinton discovers the truth everyone else missed. She knows in her bones that Eustace Woodville is innocent, and she will prove it to a world that has already judged him. What follows is one of literature's earliest and most compelling female investigations: a wife navigating a labyrinth of family secrets, suppressed testimony, and dangerous omissions to clear her husband's name. Wilkie Collins constructs his detective story not as a puzzle box but as an excavation of what justice truly costs - and who pays the price when the law fails to deliver truth. This is marriage as battlefield, love as evidence, and the radical proposition that a woman might trust her own judgment over a courtroom's.
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“Are you free of each other, pretty Mrs. Valeria, by common consent of both parties?””
— Wilkie Collins
“Only give a woman love, and there is nothing she will not venture, suffer, and do.””
— Wilkie Collins
“Bana uyku ilacımı verip gittin. Seni görünce bir an cesaretimi kaybeder gibi oldum. Kendi kendime Ama sen yüzüme bile bakmadın, yalnızca ilaca bakıyordun. Ben de hiçbir şey söylemeden gitmene izin verdim.””
— Wilkie Collins
“Sen yanımda olmadığından ölmek kararım, daha doğrusu yaşamaya karşı duyduğum nefret değişmeden, bütün gücüyle sürüp gidiyor.””
— Wilkie Collins
“Bunları okuduktan sonra başımı yana çevirip yüreğime saplanan sancıyı belli etmemek için elimden geleni yaptım. Onu çok sevdiğimin farkındaydım ama, o ana kadar derecesini bilmediğimi anlamıştım.””
— Wilkie Collins
“Daha az duygusal olan kadınların farkına bile varmayacağı birçok önemsiz ayrıntı onun duyarlı ruhu için ıstırap kaynağı oluyordu. Hani mutsuz olmak için doğmuş insanlar vardır ya; işte o zavallı onlardan biriydi.””
— Wilkie Collins
“Seven bir kadının üzerinde erkeğinin yaratacağı yüz binlerce gizemli etkinin en başında hiç kuşkusuz ses tonu gelir.””
— Wilkie Collins
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