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
Murders in the Rue Morgue (1932 film) film was produced as a compensatory package for Lugosi and Florey, after both were dropped from 1931's "Frankenstein". Lugosi had originally been cast as Dr. Frankenstein, and the film was to be directed by Florey, who had been developing the coveted project. Lugosi was subsequently demoted to play the mute monster, however, which he claimed to have turned down. Florey was replaced as director by James Whale, as producer Carl Laemmle was both unsatisfied with Florey's work on the project, and had given Whale first choice of any Universal property at the time. The box office results for "Murders in