In one work in this genre, a woman pretends to go fetch a glass of water and purposely leaves a lit candle in a room with calico curtains, to start a fire.
In one work in this genre, a woman pretends to go fetch a glass of water and purposely leaves a lit candle in a room with calico curtains, to start a fire. In another work in this genre, the protagonist's disfigurement in a train accident allows her to become a governess for her family that she deserted. Lady Isabel Carlyle is reunited with her husband in that work in this genre, Ellen Wood's East Lynne. The lawyer Robert finds out that his uncle's wife was previously married to George Talboys and attempted murder by pushing him down a well in Elizabeth (*) Braddon's Lady Audley's Secret, an example of this genre. Its most prominent example contains an identity-swap arranged by Count Fosco which is exposed by Walter Hartright after the ominous appearance of Anne Catherick. For 10 points, Wilkie Collins's The Woman in White started what Victorian literary genre that aimed to create excitement through intricate plots often involving criminals?
In one work in this genre, a woman pretends to go fetch a glass of water and purposely leaves a lit candle in a room with calico curtains, to start a fire.
sensation novels [grudgingly prompt on thriller or suspense; do NOT accept or prompt on any substitute that mentions "mystery" or "horror"]  