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Violence
Some
Moderate; a murder and the concealment of past crimes
Language
None
Victorian-era prose; no strong language
Sexual Content
None
No sexual content
Substance Use
None
No substance use
Emotional Intensity
Some
Moderate psychological tension; themes of guilt, hidden identity, and the impossibility of escape from the past
What this book is about
Mary Elizabeth Braddon's 1864 sensation novel follows Henry Dunbar, a banking magnate who has a dark secret from his youth in India. When the one man who knows that secret is found dead near Dunbar's estate, suspicion falls in complicated directions. A precursor to psychological crime fiction, Henry Dunbar prefigures Braddon's Lady Audley's Secret in its interest in respectable men with hidden crimes and the women who witness them.
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Murder mystery
Hidden criminal identity
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