Jackie Collins new Madison Castelli novel, "Deadly Embrace", was published in 2002, and "Hollywood Divorces" was published in 2003. In 2004, Collins hosted a series of television specials, "Jackie Collins Presents", for E! Entertainment Television. Collins continued with "Lovers & Players" (2006); the sixth Lucky Santangelo novel, "Drop Dead Beautiful" (2007); and "Married Lovers" (2008), which concerns the affairs of a female personal trainer named Cameron Paradise. This was followed by "Poor Little Bitch Girl" (2009), which stemmed from an idea Collins had worked on for a television series about heiresses that was ultimately never made. "Paris Connections" (2010), a direct-to-DVD movie
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