"The Peer and the Woman" is a Victorian melodrama with elements of gothic horror. Lord Alceston, the Earl of Harrowdean, statesman, philanthropist, and nobleman, is murdered in his own study during a ball given at his home. His son, Bernard, returns from his travels on the Continent, bent on avenging his father's murder. On his way, he is to meet love and learn a lot of secrets and mysteries of the past. This is a dramatic tale of love, jealousy, and revenge.

Edward Phillips Oppenheim (22 October 1866 - 3 February 1946) was an English novelist, in his lifetime a major and successful writer of genre fiction including thrillers.

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