His Darling Sin

by Mary Elizabeth Braddon

This Elibron Classics book is a facsimile reprint of a 1899 edition by Bernhard Tauchnitz, Leipzig.

Genres: Classics

314 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1899

About the author

Mary Elizabeth Braddon was a British Victorian era popular novelist. She was an extremely prolific writer, producing some 75 novels with very inventive plots. The most famous one is her first novel, Lady Audley's Secret (1862), which won her recognition and fortune as well. The novel has been in print ever since, and has been dramatised and filmed several times.

Braddon also founded Belgravia Magazine (1866), which presented readers with serialized sensation novels, poems, travel narratives, and biographies, as well as essays on fashion, history, science. She also edited Temple Bar Magazine. Braddon's legacy is tied to the Sensation Fiction of the 1860s.

She is also the mother of novelist W.B. Maxwell.

Reviews

[Miriam · Rating 3 out of 5]

The first part, with the story of Lady Perivale who's cut away from London society by a scandal of which she's innocent, is very compelling.
Instead the second part about a detection for murder is a little bit boring.
Readable.

[Christopher Robinson · Rating 4 out of 5]

Ends well.

[Ian · Rating 2 out of 5]

Not one of Mrs B's best. The novel falls into two distinct halves, the first being Lady Perivale's story which is wrapped up half way through, and the second the detective Faunce's story and his search for the missing Colonel Rannock. Although the two stories are connected (by the missing Rannock)it would have made for a more satisfying read if the two had been interwoven rather than the novel suffering from a sudden complete shift in viewpoint from first half to the second.