Description
For sale: a Rare and Exceptional first paperback edition, early printing of A Reliable Wife by Robert Goolrick.
The exterior of this paperback edition is in Near Fine condition, with bright covers with light soiling, clean page blocks, mild surface wear, strong title on a square spine, a tight binding with no spine cracks, rubbed spine ends, mild edge wear and lightly rounded corners. The interior of the book is in Very Good condition with no marks, inscriptions, or other signs of ownership. The end papers and the interior pages are clean and evenly toned.
Rural Wisconsin, 1909. In the bitter cold, Ralph Truitt, a successful businessman, stands alone on a train platform waiting for the woman who answered his newspaper advertisement for “a reliable wife.” But when Catherine Land steps off the train from Chicago, she’s not the “simple, honest woman” that Ralph is expecting. She is both complex and devious, haunted by a terrible past and motivated by greed. Her plan is simple: she will win this man’s devotion, and then, ever so slowly, she will poison him and leave Wisconsin a wealthy widow.
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