The Advocate's Wife

Adelaide Porteous had made a good marriage to the great barrister Sir WilliamPorteous QC and this imperious beautiful woman was one of Queen Victoriascourtiers ... » 

Adelaide Porteous had made a good marriage to the great barrister Sir WilliamPorteous QC and this imperious beautiful woman was one of Queen Victoriascourtiers already she has launched two of her three daughters into society.But then disaster strikes. The homicidal dilettante Gideon Raikes enraged atSir Williams attempts to put him behind bars engineers a very public attempton his life. The ensuing investigation begins to disinter some gruesomePorteous family skeletons and Adelaide is forced to contemplate desperatemeasures to secure the safety of her husband and three children. Set in lateVictorian London and rural Essex this wellwritten novel features the chirpybut vulnerable Detective Inspector Arnold Box and his colleagues of GreatScotland Yard. «