The Law and the Lady: A Mystery/Detective, Fiction and Literature Classic By Wilkie Collins! AAA+++

A middlebrow gothic heroine. An outlandish villain who isn't entirely vile. A thoroughly unheroic hero. A plot depending on impossible coincidences. Some cheerfully unrealistic and grotesque minor characters. A little gentle satire on the Victorian habit of reading published murder trials and a dim view taken as to the vagaries of Scottish law. Loved it!