Days after her wedding, Valeria Woodville discovers that her husband once stood trial in Scotland for poisoning his first wife, and left court with the verdict Not Proven. Refusing to live under that shadow, she takes up the investigation herself, a path that leads her to the bizarre, wheelchair-bound Miserrimus Dexter.
One of the first novels with a woman detective at its centre, written by the master of Victorian sensation fiction. Download the free EPUB.