Author: SWIFT, Benjamin [ie William Romaine Paterson].
Title: The Tormentor.
Description: London, Fisher Unwin 1897. Octavo publisher's cloth. A rather good copy. ¶ First edition of this mildly disappointing tragic thriller. Disappointing for fans of traditional crime thrillers fooled by the title and chapter headings. But we are given poison and death and any book that received reviews like, "Its story is unwholesome and its style deplorable. One hates to receive such a book for review, for it is filled with darkness, meanness and crime," can't be without value.

Keywords: literature fiction c19th England thrillers crime