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Lady Audley's Secret
by Mary Elizabeth Braddon
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Golden-haired Lucy Graham marries the wealthy, elderly Sir Michael Audley and seems the perfect Victorian angel of the house — until a visitor vanishes from the estate and Sir Michael's idle nephew begins a dogged amateur investigation into his new aunt's past. Braddon's scandalous 1862 bestseller invented much of what we now call the psychological thriller: bigamy, arson, false identity, madness as accusation and weapon, all glittering beneath drawing-room manners. Sensational, briskly plotted and sly about what women were permitted to want, it reads as a period puzzle and as a sharp portrait of a woman refusing her assigned role.
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