Five fantastic mystery stories from prolific Victorian author Mary Elizabeth Braddon: The Cold Embrace The Shadow in the Corner Good Lady Ducayne At Chrighton Abbey Eveline’s Visitant

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Mary Elizabeth Braddon was a British Victorian era popular novelist. She is best known for her 1862 sensation novel Lady Audley's Secret.Table of ContentsThe Cold EmbraceThe Shadow in the CornerGood Lady DucayneAt Chrighton AbbeyEveline's VisitantLady Audley's SecretBirds of PreyCharlotte's InheritanceThe Doctor's WifeMilly Darrell

Barrister Robert Audley is suspicious. His friend George Talboys recently returned a rich man from the goldfields of colonial Australia but is shattered to find that the wife he left behind has died. Now George has vanished, leaving only a note saying that he's returned to Australia. Fearing foul play, Robert attempts an investigation into his friend's sudden disappearance but his every move is hampered by his uncle's lovely young bride, Lady Audley, whose placid, doll-like exterior concea...

Collected together, Lady Audley's Secret and Aurora Floyd display Mary Elizabeth Braddon's mastery of the Victorian sensation novel, a mode that imported crime, secrecy, bigamy, madness, and social transgression into the supposedly safe domestic sphere. In Lady Audley's Secret, the angelic heroine becomes a figure of concealment and danger, while Aurora Floyd offers a bolder, more passionate woman whose past threatens aristocratic respectability. Braddon's prose is brisk, theatrical, and p...

MARY ELIZABETH BRADDON Ultimate Collection gathers the many faces of one of Victorian fiction's most agile imaginations: sensation mystery, domestic romance, crime narrative, and supernatural tale. Across these works, Braddon combines intricate plotting, theatrical pacing, and a sharp eye for social hypocrisy, exposing the anxieties beneath respectable households, inheritances, marriages, and class ambition. Her prose moves between melodramatic intensity and precise psychological observati...

Lady Audley's Secret is a landmark of Victorian sensation fiction, weaving bigamy, disappearance, forged identity, and domestic unease into a plot of remarkable narrative propulsion. Braddon sets the apparent tranquility of the English country house against the instability of modern urban life, exposing the anxieties beneath respectability, marriage, inheritance, and female beauty. Written in lucid, melodramatic prose sharpened by psychological insight, the novel belongs beside Wilkie Coll...

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Mary Elizabeth Braddon's The Christmas Hirelings is a compact Christmas novella that blends domestic realism, melodrama, and fairy-tale coincidence. Its story turns on a lonely, embittered gentleman who, seeking to manufacture holiday cheer, hires children to inhabit his house for Christmas; what begins as an artificial performance of family feeling becomes an occasion for emotional renewal, recognition, and reconciliation. Written in the Victorian tradition of the Christmas tale, the book...

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