A architect's daughter is caught in a web of mistaken identity and a sinister steward's secret. Hardy's first published novel, a sensation mystery.
Books mentioned in Desperate Remedies (2)
Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe: “No, in her soul she's as solitary as Robinson Crusoe, though she has acquaintances in plenty, if not relations.”
The Statue and the Bust by Robert Browning: “Edward came upon her in the street at the first turning, and, like the Great Duke Ferdinand in 'The Statue and the Bust'--”
Books that mention Desperate Remedies (1)
The Common Reader: Second Series by Virginia Woolf: “In the year 1871 he was a man of thirty-one; he had written a novel, Desperate Remedies, but he was by no means an assured craftsman.”