Юная Валерия, несмотря на сопротивление родственников, выходит замуж за аристократа Юстаса Вудвила. Но семейное счастье неожиданно рушится: Валерия узнает об ужасном прошлом мужа. Юстас обвинялся в убийстве (отравлении) своей первой жены. Убежденная в его невиновности, любящая женщина отчаянно пытается раскрыть тайну трехлетней давности. Ее семейное счастье теперь зависит от того, удастся ли заменить вердикт шотландских присяжных «не доказано» на «не виновен». А единственное доказательство...
"In relation to the purely literary side of the question," as Mr. Wilkie Collins says, there can be no doubt that his studies of character in 'My Lady's Money' do seem to be drawn from nature. The story is constructed with his accustomed skill, the details fit together as usual with the precision of the facts in a criminal trial.
'A Rogue's Life' was published in a magazine some twenty years before it was made into a book. It is a very clever story, and the interest is well sustained throughout. There is just about enough of it, inasmuch as a short tale like this is more interesting than some of the author's longer works, wherein the complicated plots and lengthened mysteries are too apt to weary the reader before his curiosity is satisfied. We cannot help feeling quite an affection for the «Rogue,»...
'A Rogue's Life' was published in a magazine some twenty years before it was made into a book. It is a very clever story, and the interest is well sustained throughout. There is just about enough of it, inasmuch as a short tale like this is more interesting than some of the author's longer works, wherein the complicated plots and lengthened mysteries are too apt to weary the reader before his curiosity is satisfied. We cannot help feeling quite an affection for the «Rogue,»...
