{"product_id":"lady-audleys-secret","title":"Lady Audley's Secret","description":"\u003cbody\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eTitle: \u003c\/b\u003eLady Audley's Secret\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor: \u003c\/b\u003eMary Elizabeth Braddon\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN: \u003c\/b\u003e9781961884380\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher: \u003c\/b\u003eSmith \u0026amp; Taylor Classics\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished: \u003c\/b\u003e2025\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding: \u003c\/b\u003ePaperback\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage: \u003c\/b\u003eEnglish\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition Note: \u003c\/b\u003eNew from the publisher\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher Description: \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eLucy Graham, radiantly beautiful, born to poverty, and Sir Michael Audley, aging aristocratic widower and fabulously wealthy, are married soon after first glance. \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eLife is peaceful at old Audley Court until the arrival of Robert Audley- Sir Michael's nephew- and his friend George Talboys, who is home again after making his fortune in Australia. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWhen George mysteriously disappears, Robert takes it upon himself to find him again. Developing a detective's eye, following disturbing clue after clue, Robert becomes convinced his alluring Aunt Lucy isn't as innocent, or possibly as sane, as she seems.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eLady Audley's Secret\u003c\/i\u003e first appeared in\u003ci\u003e Robin Goodfellow \u003c\/i\u003emagazine in 1861, establishing it as a \"sensational\" novel to rival Wilkie Collins' \u003ci\u003eThe Woman in White\u003c\/i\u003e (1860). A cunningly plotted mystery novel as sensual as a Pre-Raphaelite portrait, \u003ci\u003eLady Audley's Secret \u003c\/i\u003eprobes mid-Victorian anxieties about the rapid rise of consumerism with the invention of one of literature's great villainesses who goes to great lengths to secure her greatest desires.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/body\u003e","brand":"Smith \u0026 Taylor Classics","offers":[{"title":"Lady Audley's Secret | Mary Elizabeth Braddon | Paperback | 9781961884380 | New | Fiction 1680210","offer_id":50798975385858,"sku":"1680210","price":38.3,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0609\/3327\/5906\/files\/81iNcDO8TWL.jpg?v=1792397342","url":"https:\/\/boswellsbooks.com\/products\/lady-audleys-secret","provider":"Boswell's Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}