01434cam a2200301 4500 547187320 TxAuBib 20100419120000.0 121112s2009||||||||||||d|||||||||||eng|u 2009012157 9781410417381 1410417387 (OCoLC)317698402 BCLS TxAuBib Goolrick, Robert, 1948- A reliable wife [large print] / by Robert Goolrick. Large print ed. Waterville, Me. : Thorndike Press, 2009. 411 p. (large print) ; 22 cm. Rural Wisconsin, 1907. In the bitter cold, wealthy businessman Ralph Truitt stands alone on a train platform waiting for the woman who has answered his advertisement for "a reliable wife." But when Catherine Land steps off the train from Chicago, she's not the "simple, honest woman" Ralph is expecting. She is both complex and devious, but her plan is simple: she will win this man's devotion, then slowly poison him and leave Wisconsin a wealthy widow. What she has not counted on is that Truitt has a plan of his own for his new wife. 20100419. Marriage Fiction. Family secrets Fiction. Large type books. Wisconsin History 19th century Fiction. Historical fiction. TXCKT