In the canon
The Law and the Lady
- Form
- Form Novel
- Year
- Year 1875
- Pages
- Pages 420
A Scottish jury may return a third verdict, and the man it frees carries it for life: Not Proven, neither guilty nor innocent, the question simply left open. Weeks into her marriage, Valeria Macallan learns that this is what stands over her husband, and reads the transcript of his trial for the poisoning of his first wife, in which every witness believed him a liar.
That the actions of human beings are not invariably governed by the laws of pure reason.
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