Description

A village in Cornwall is thrown into turmoil after a young girl falls from a train to her death Was this an accident Or murder The mystery deepens when clues link the girl to a double homicide committed ten years earlier Braddons sensational novel takes us to the estates of aristocrats the haunts of tabloid writers the homes of Bohemian artists and the dark alleyways of Paris Braddon one of Victorian Englands bestselling novelists is at the height of her powers in Wyllards Weird The novel shakes the foundations of 19thcentury social order as it questions the sanctity of marriage and exposes the vices hidden beneath masks of gentility First published in 1885 Wyllards Weird has been for too long either out of print or available only in expensive facsimile editions The novel holds an important place in literary history as it forecasts the appearance of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde in 1886 and Sherlock Holmes in 1887