Wilkie Collins

The Law and the Lady Illustrated Wilkie Collins

Three years ago, her husband was charged with murder, and the verdict the jury returned was the Scottish verdict, unproven. The jury did not have enough evidence to convict him, nor enough to exonerate him comfortably. Eustace could not bear the weight of his discovery; he fled to the mainland, to live in anonymity. But Valeria knew her husband and loved him. She knew he was innocent too, with the kind of intuition that guides the lucky ones without a hitch. And she set out to prove it to the world.