Ada, the Betrayed

📓 Subtitled The Murder at the Old Smithy, this 'Romance of Passion' first appeared in 1843 in Lloyd's Penny Weekly Miscellany and went on to become a bestseller. Rymer wrote over 100 popular novels - or 'penny dreadfuls' as they were known - between 1842-67, using both his own name and various anagrammatic pseudonyms.