I am reading a novel with an ironic title " A Reliable Wife". It was popular. It even had a paperback edition. The language was beautiful, but the plot was too Gothic and far-fetched. The author---this is his first novel---seems to be preaching instead of evoking, but the novel is holding my interest. The author is forecasting the plot. He is hooking the reader's interest with a clever device. A scheming woman answered a lonely rich man's advertisement for a wife. She plans to poison him with a slow death and gets his money.
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