A poisoner in a respectable English household, and the slow accumulation of small deaths. Bulwer-Lytton based it on the real case of Thomas Griffiths Wainewright, the art critic who murdered his relatives for insurance, and the outcry was such that he added a defensive preface.
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Alice, or the Mysteries : The Later Life of Ernest Maltravers
Eugene Aram : The Case of a Learned Man at Lynn
Ernest Maltravers : A Young Man's Education in the World
Zanoni : A Rosicrucian Romance of the French Revolution
Night and Morning : Two Brothers and a Disputed Marriage
The Last of the Barons : Warwick the King-Maker and His England
Paul Clifford : A Highwayman Before the English Bench
Pelham : A Dandy's Progress Through Society
The Coming Race : A Subterranean People and the Power of Vril
The Parisians : Paris on the Eve of the Commune
The Caxtons : A Family Picture