Catherine Sloper, a shy, plain and boring young woman, falls for a poor but handsome and well-bred man, Morris Townsend who her emotionally abusive father suspects is a fortune hunter.
When Baines’ wife is found murdered and Baines is implicated, Philippe, an impressionable young boy idolizes Baines, tries everything to point the investigation away from Baines but incriminates him instead in what was, in fact, an accidental death.
The Fallen Idol