When he died in agony, and Marie
Lafarge was accused of giving him arsenic, and was condemned to life imprisonment,
the French upper class was literally torn asunder. Was this pale lady, brought
up in convents, chateaux and elegant Parisian boudoirs, one of the most
unfortunate victims of malice and injustice of the century, or was she a
murderess at heart and her whole life a tissue of lies and, if that were true,
did she herself believe the fantasies in which she mind was steeped?
Published in England in 1937,
this is the first appearance in America of the most ambitious work of this
master of melodrama.
This special edition of THE LADY
AND THE ARSENIC by Joseph Shearing has been made available to the Armed Forces
of the United States through an arrangement with the original Publisher, Smith
& Durrell, Inc., New York.
Editions for the Armed Services,
Inc., a non-profit organization established by the Council on Books in Wartime