Desperate Remedies
by Thomas Hardy
Publisher: ManyBooks 1874
ISBN/ASIN: 0140435573
Description:
A tale of mystery, entanglement, surprise and moral obliquity. Blackmail, murder and romance are among the ingredients of Hardy's first published novel, and in it he draws blithely on the 'sensation novel' perfected by Wilkie Collins.
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