Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell

A Dark Night's Work Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell

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A fascinating tale of morality and guilt, of family and love and loyalty

"Oh my God! one little hour ago I was innocent of this man's blood!"

Thus speaks Edward Wilkins, a successful country lawyer, after he has struck down his business partner in a temper, thereby causing the man's death. However, ill-luck will have it that his own daughter Ellinor, the only family member left to him after a series of blows of fate, becomes aware of this act of manslaughter and, together with a trusted family servant, helps her father get rid of the dead body.