Sweet Adelaide — Julian Symons

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....