This novel is narrated for brief periods by Dr. Alfred Goodricke, Jane Gould, Hester Pinhorn, and a tombstone.  Though the main legal duels are undertaken by Merriman and Gilmore, its protagonist is saved from a trap set for him at Knowlesbury by the local lawyer Mr. Dawson, who lets him slip away to the Old Welmingham church to retrieve birth records that are consumed in 
This novel is narrated for brief periods by Dr. Alfred Goodricke, Jane Gould, Hester Pinhorn, and a tombstone.  Though the main legal duels are undertaken by Merriman and Gilmore, its protagonist is saved from a trap set for him at Knowlesbury by the local lawyer Mr. Dawson, who lets him slip away to the Old Welmingham church to retrieve birth records that are consumed in a fire, along with the primary villain. The latter's assistant is defeated when it is revealed he is a renegade member of The Brotherhood; earlier, that villain steals Marian Halcombe's diary and swaps Anne Catherick with Laura Fairlie. For 10 points, name this novel in which Walter Hartright fights Percival Glyde and Count Fosco over a pale asylum escapee, by Wilkie Collins.
This novel is narrated for brief periods by Dr. Alfred Goodricke, Jane Gould, Hester Pinhorn, and a tombstone.  
The {Woman} in {White}