A Reliable Wife by Robert Goolrich follows the characters Ralph Truitt, a very rich man in Wisconsin, and his "mail order" bride, Catherine Land. Catherine arrives in the middle of the first snow storm of the year
to begin her life as the wife of Mr. Truitt. She misrepresents herself from the start yet Mr. Truitt marries her anyway. Her plan was to slowly poison him with arsenic and then bring her lover to live in his mansion. Things don't go as planned for either, and to tell too much of the rest of the plot would give away more than anyone interested in reading the book would want.
to begin her life as the wife of Mr. Truitt. She misrepresents herself from the start yet Mr. Truitt marries her anyway. Her plan was to slowly poison him with arsenic and then bring her lover to live in his mansion. Things don't go as planned for either, and to tell too much of the rest of the plot would give away more than anyone interested in reading the book would want. It's a quick read, even though it feels "big." And mostly good. I didn't like any of the characters and thought Goolrich's writing was overdone in many instances, but it was a good book, and I recommend it to anyone who likes reading books with surprise endings.
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