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A Reliable Wife - Robert Goolrick
A Reliable Wife
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Ralph Truit and Catherine Land each have a simple plan. Successful Wisconsin businessman Truit wants "a reliable wife," and so he advertises for the same in a Chicago newspaper. Land, the woman who answers the ad, accepts his proposal, planning to poison him and inherit his estate. In novels, as... show more
Ralph Truit and Catherine Land each have a simple plan. Successful Wisconsin businessman Truit wants "a reliable wife," and so he advertises for the same in a Chicago newspaper. Land, the woman who answers the ad, accepts his proposal, planning to poison him and inherit his estate. In novels, as in real life, such simplicity frequently backfires. In this debut fiction, set in the early 20th century, both plotters must confront unexpected truths. Definitely a writer to watch.
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Format: ebook
ISBN: 9781616200008 (1616200006)
Publisher: Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill
Pages no: 291
Edition language: English
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I book on Monday
I book on Monday rated it
0.0 "Una esposa de fiar", de Robert Goolrick
Un nuevo ejemplo de escritores que disfrutan alargando inútilmente sus novelas, para mayor gloria de las empresas de transportes (que tarifan según el peso de los bultos) y en perjuicio de la selva amazónica, que ve disminuir a pasos agigantados la reserva forestal para imprimir cienes y cienes de l...
A Tale of Two Pages
A Tale of Two Pages rated it
0.0 A Reliable Wife
***Very adult themed novel. I do not recommend this for anyone under the age of 21***Catherine is the worst sort of woman out there. But she markets herself as a reliable woman who would make a good wife. She answers an ad placed in a paper by Ralph Truitt and soon is on her way across country via t...
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4.0 A Reliable Wife
Told in two parts, A Reliable Wife is about the arranged marriage between Ralph Truitt and Catherine Land. I gave this book 3.5 stars which I rounded up to 4 stars on Goodreads. As I read, I went through a myriad of reactions in response to Ralph and Catherine. Ralph at times would evoke sympathy i...
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5.0 A Reliable Wife
A lie from the first moment they met....Ralph knew she wasn't the girl he had placed an ad for. But Catherine never thought twice about how she lied to this man she was going to marry and how her destitute life before Ralph made her such a phony…but the lying didn't even faze her. Her life befor...
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