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.

Reproduction of the original: Ada, the Betrayed by John Malcom Rymer

'Ada, the Betrayed; Or, The Murder at the Old Smithy. A Romance of Passion' by James Malcolm Rymer is a novel set in England in the year 1795. The story opens with a devastating storm that ravages a village, causing chaos and destruction. Amidst the chaos, a woman named Mad Maud predicts a terrible fate for the Old Smithy and its owner, Andrew Britton. Soon after, a fire breaks out in the building, and a horrifying discovery is made—a murder has taken place. As the villagers investigate the crime, they uncover a web of deceit and betrayal that threatens to tear them apart.

The influential journalist, editor, and prolific fiction writer G. W. M. Reynolds (1814-1879) finally receives the attention he is due in this collaborative volume. Essays address Reynolds's involvement with Chartism, serial publication, the mass market periodical, commodity culture, and Reynolds's long-running urban gothic work, The Mysteries of London. Comprehensive bibliographies of Reynolds's own writings and relevant secondary works make this volume an essential resource for scholars.

Ada, the Betrayed; Or, The Murder at the Old Smithy. A Romance of Passion, has been considered important throughout the human history, and so that this work is never forgotten we have made efforts in its preservation by republishing this book in a modern format for present and future generations. This whole book has been reformatted, retyped and designed. These books are not made of scanned copies of their original work and hence the text is clear and readable.