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The Cloven Foot

First published: 1879
Pages: 398

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Chapter One, "The Heir Presumptive"
37:08
Chapter Two, "Jasper Treverton's Will"
16:56
Chapter Three, "A Mysterious Visitor"
25:57
Chapter Four, "La Chicot"
36:23
Chapter Five, "A Disappointed Lover"
16:37
Chapter Six, "La Chicot Has Her Own Way"
28:43
Chapter Seven, Part One: "A Little While Such Lips as Thine to Kiss"
24:20
Chapter Seven, Part 2, "A Little While Such Lips as Thine to Kiss"
24:55
Chapter Eight, "'Days That Are Over, Dreams That Are Done:"
31:58
Chapter Nine, "'And Art Thou Done! And Art Thou True!'"
24:51
Chapter Ten, "Engaged"
25:23
Chapter Eleven, "No Trousseau"
15:17
Chapter Twelve, "An Ill-Omened Wedding"
31:48
Chapter Thirteen, "The Settlement"
9:51
Chapter Fourteen, "'You Have But to Say the Word'"
16:53
Chapter Fifteen, "Edward Clare Discovers a Likeness"
24:17
Chapter Sixteen, "Shall It Be 'Yes' or 'No'?"
18:35
Chapter Seventeen, "Murder"
17:58
Chapter Eighteen, "What the Diamonds Were Worth"
28:03
Chapter Nineteen, "'To a Deep Lawny Dell They Came'"
23:16
Chapter Twenty, "The Church Near Camelot"
18:35
Chjapter Twenty-one, "Halcyon Days"
14:26
Chapter Twenty-two, "A Village Iago"
26:22
Chapter Twenty-three, "In the Meanwhile the Skies'Gan Rumble Soar"
15:43
Chapter Twenty-four, "And Purple Light Shone Over All'"
12:11
Chapter Twenty-five, "The Children's Party"
10:43
Chapter Twenty-six, Part One, "A Disinterested Parent"
22:47
Chapter Twenty-six, Part Two, "A Disinterested Parent"
24:02
Chapter Twenty-seven, "Desrolles Is Not Communicative"
15:42
Chapter Twenty-eight, "Edward Clare Goes on a Voyage of Discovery"
32:15
Chapter Twenty-nine, "George Gerard"
15:38
Chapter Thirty, "Thou Art the Man"
24:25
Chapter Thirty-one, "Why Don't You Trust Me?'"
14:34
Chapter Thirty-two, "On His Defence"
28:06
Chapter Thirty-three, "At the Morgue"
14:18
Chapter Thirty-four, "George Gerard in Danger"
24:10
Chapter Thirty-five, "On a Voyage of Discovery"
16:41
Chapter Thirty-six, "Kergariou's Wife"
19:04
Chapter Thirty-seven, "The Tenant from Beachampton"
16:52
Chapter Thirty-eight, Part One, "Celia's Lovers"
22:24
Chjapter Thirty-eight, Part Two, "Celia's Lovers"
24:55
Chapter Thirty-nine, "On Suspicion"
18:15
Chapter Forty, "Mr. Leopold Asks Irrelevant Questions"
12:44
Chapter Forty-one, Part One, "Mrs. Evitt Makes a Revelation"
22:04
Chapter Forty-one, Part Two, "Mrs. Evitt Makes a Revelation"
19:11
Chapter Forty-two, "The Undertaker's Evidence"
19:46
Chapter Forty-three, "An Old Lady's Diary"
18:27
Chapter Forty-four, "Three Witnesses"
8:33
Chapter Forty-five, "The Hunt for Desrolles"
25:55
Epilogue
9:14

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About this book

By 1879 Mary Elizabeth Braddon had spent nearly two decades perfecting the sensation novel, and this later entry shows her still working the vein she made famous: respectable surfaces stretched over secrets, money, and buried guilt. The title points to the old belief that the devil, however finely dressed, cannot hide his cloven hoof, and Braddon applies the idea to characters whose crimes and deceptions eventually show through. Like her best work, the book moves through drawing rooms and country houses where reputation counts for more than truth, and it keeps its grip by making the reader wait for the moment concealment finally fails. It stands as a solid example of the genre she dominated for a generation. A free PDF and EPUB edition can be downloaded here.

About the author

M. E. Braddon

Mary Elizabeth Braddon (1835-1915) was an English novelist and a leading figure of the Victorian sensation genre. Best known for Lady Audley's Secret, she wrote more than eighty novels, edited popular magazines, and built a huge readership with fast-moving plots full of secrets, crime, and defiant women.