Jackie Collins newspaper every six weeks and which introduced a new heroine in the form of investigative journalist Madison Castelli. The fifth Lucky Santangelo novel, "Dangerous Kiss", was published in 1999. The 2000s turned out to be Collins' busiest time; she published eight best-sellers, more than in any other decade in her career. In 2000, Collins brought back the character of Madison Castelli in a new novel, "Lethal Seduction". In 2001, she published "Hollywood Wives: The New Generation", which was adapted as a 2003 television movie starring Farrah Fawcett, Melissa Gilbert, and Robin Givens. (Collins was credited as an executive producer.) A
The Law and the Lady Though Collins is sometimes credited with inventing the detective story, others give that honour to Edgar Allan Poe, whose "Murders in the Rue Morgue" (1841) was 27 years earlier than Collins' "The Moonstone". However, Collins almost certainly began the tradition of female sleuths continued by Agatha Christie with Miss Marple and, in more modern times, V. I. Warshawski, Sara Paretsky's private detective. The Law and the Lady The Law and the Lady is a detective story, published in 1875 by Wilkie Collins. It is not quite as sensational in style as "The Moonstone" and "The Woman in White". Valeria Brinton