LADY AUDLEYS SECRET PB – MARY ELIZABETH BRADDON-JENNY TAYLOR-RUSSELL CROFTS-JENNY TAYLOR

"Weathering critical scorn, Lady Audley s Secret quickly established Mary Elizabeth Braddon as the leading light of Victorian sensation fiction, sharing the honour only with Wilkie Collins. Addictive, cunningly plotted and certainly sensational, Lady Audley s Secret draws on contemporary theories of insanity to probe mid-Victorian anxieties about the rapid rise of consumer culture. What is the mystery surrounding the charming heroine? Lady Audley s secret is investigated by Robert Audley, aristocrat turned detective, in a novel that has lost none of its power to disturb and entertain."