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Sweet Adelaide

Published
Jan 1980
Main Genre
Mystery Mystery
Pages
384

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Basing his story on a notorious unsolved nineteenth-century murder, Julian Symons weaves a tale filled with psychological suspense, rich in Victorian atmosphere, and capped by a brilliantly imagined solution.

All her life Adelaide craved freedom: freedom from poverty, freedom from the ignorance and shame her bastard birth condemned her to, and, most of all, freedom from the husband who repelled her. And Adelaide Bartlett knew just how to get what she wanted....

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First Edition Nov 1981 Penguin ISBN 0140057927
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Jan 1980 HarperCollins ISBN 0060142073
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Mar 1982 Ulverscroft Large Print ISBN 0708907598
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