Phineas Redux

First published in 1873-74, this sequel brings Phineas Finn back from Ireland to Westminster after his first wife's death. He re-enters Parliament as the Conservative and Liberal coalitions shift, renews ties with Lady Laura Kennedy and Madame Max Goesler, and becomes the object of a murder accusation that turns the novel into a trial of reputation as well as of policy. The action moves among the House, country houses, and the courts. It is a parliamentary novel about return, slander, and the private cost of public life, not a detective story in the later sense.

Series binding, pale brown paper boards with the border in red-brown. Pale brown endleaves. Pale brown slipcase.