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
The Masque of the Red Death (1964 film) Red Death" back, because of the similarities, but it was really an artificial reason in my mind," he later said. Eventually he decided to go ahead and do it anyway. Another fact in the delay was that Corman had a great deal of trouble coming up with a screenplay he was happy with. Drafts were written by John Carter, Robert Towne and Barboura Morris, but Corman was not happy with any of them. There were also a number of rival adaptations of "Masque" being mooted around this time. The Woolner Brothers announced a film based on the story as did