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The Trail of the Serpent

by M. E. Braddon

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1861
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This was the first novel Mary Elizabeth Braddon ever published, and it helped invent a genre. Set in the grimy fictional town of Slopperton, the story follows Jabez North, a cold and ambitious schoolmaster who will commit any crime to rise, and Richard Marwood, a good-natured prodigal wrongly accused of killing his uncle. Standing against the schemer is Mr. Peters, a mute police detective who cannot speak but reads guilt better than anyone, often counted among the earliest detectives in English fiction. Braddon spins a tangle of false identity, forgery, and violence, then slowly draws the noose tight around the real culprit. First issued in 1860 as Three Times Dead, it was revised and retitled a year later.

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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.

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First published
1861
Reading time
About 11 hours
Pages
369
Language
English
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