Behind the spotless doorstep of No. 14 Fitzgeorge Street in Bloomsbury lives Philip Sheldon, a dentist with failing prospects who reads the Lancet with unusual interest. When his old friend Tom Halliday falls ill under his roof and a letter arrives from an insurance office, a cold-blooded scheme begins to unfold.
One of Braddon’s finest sensation novels, a precise study of greed and respectability. Download the free EPUB.