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.
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}