The cloven foot : A novel by M. E. Braddon

"The Cloven Foot" by M. E. Braddon is a novel published in 1879. When John Treverton inherits his uncle's estate with one condition—he must marry the adopted daughter Laura within a year—he accepts, despite harboring a dark secret. Unknown to his new bride, John already lived another life in London as Jack Chicot, married to a French dancer. When La Chicot is murdered, John faces accusations of killing his first wife to secure his inheritance, threatening both his freedom and his future. (This is an automatically generated summary.)

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Author Braddon, M. E. (Mary Elizabeth), 1835-1915
Title The cloven foot : A novel
Original Publication London: John and Robert Maxwell, 1879.
Note Wikipedia page on this work: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Cloven_Foot
Credits Peter Becker, Hannah Wilson and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive)
Reading Level Reading ease score: 80.0 (6th grade). Easy to read.
Language English
LoC Class PR: Language and Literatures: English literature
Subject Detective and mystery stories
Subject Inheritance and succession -- Fiction
Subject Psychological fiction
Subject Domestic fiction
Category Text
eBook-No. 73931
Release Date
Copyright Public domain in the USA.
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