Lady Audley is universally adored: beautiful kind and charming she enamors all whom she meets. It is not until the strange disappearance of widower George Talboys that her behavior takes an odd turn. George’s friend Robert Audley Lady Audley’s nephew-in-law is on the case; upper-class layabout-turned-detective he is determined to get to the bottom of things. Mystery mayhem madness and despair: Lady Audley’s Secret is the gripping and suspenseful novel that has been branded ‘the most sensationally successful of all the sensation novels’.