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The Lady Detectives

The Lady Detectives: Episode 4: The Law and the Lady

Drama: Crime

The Law and the Lady, by Wilkie Collins

Episode 4

Episode 4: The Law and the Lady

The Law and the Lady

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By Wilkie Collins. Valeria Woodville tries to clear her husband of killing his first wife.

By Wilkie Collins. Valeria Woodville tries to clear her husband of murdering his first wife. Sensational Gothic tale starring Abigail Docherty.

From the author of 'The Woman in White' and 'The Moonstone', the sensational, Gothic tale of Valeria Woodville's quest to clear her husband of murdering his first wife.

From the Golden Age of the crime short story, 'The Lady Detectives' is a series of four female sleuths to rival the great Sherlock himself.

Wilkie Collins' mystery stars Abigail Docherty as Valeria Woodville, Richard Conlon as Eustace and Ralph Riach as the Reverend Starkweather. 

Dramatised by Roger Danes.

Producer: Patrick Rayner

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2005.

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