A Dark Night's Work: A Tale of a Hidden Crime
Aug 2026 · Aeneas Press
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Complete and unabridged, with 58 full-page plates by William Powell Frith, John Constable and George Morland. A country attorney kills a man in his own office in a moment of rage, and his clerk helps him bury the body — after which the daughter of the house must live thirty years with what she saw. Gaskell was a Manchester minister's wife; she wrote this for Dickens's magazine, and it is her only crime story — the interest is entirely in what a secret does to a family that keeps it. Fifty-eight plates after Constable, Frith, Morland and others carry the same domestic weight — girls, servants, quiet rooms — that Gaskell gives the secret at the heart of her story.
Complete and unabridged, with 58 full-page plates by William Powell Frith, John Constable and George Morland. A country attorney kills a man in his own office in a moment of rage, and his clerk helps him bury the body — after which the daughter of the house must live thirty years with what she sa...
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Elizabeth Gaskell (1810–1865) was an English novelist and short-story writer who lived and wrote in Manchester. Her published fiction includes Ruth, Sylvia's Lovers, My Lady Ludlow, A Dark Night's Work, and Curious, If True.
Elizabeth Gaskell (1810–1865) was an English novelist and short-story writer who lived and wrote in Manchester. Her published fiction includes Ruth, Sylvia's Lovers, My Lady Ludlow, A Dark Night's Work, and Curious, If True.
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