01208cam a2200289 i 4500 214837978 TxAuBib 20130905120000.0 130905s2009||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 9781565129771 paperback $15.00 1565129776 paperback $15.00 TxAuBib rda Goolrick, Robert, 1948- The reliable wife : a novel / Robert Goolrick. First paperback edition. Chapel Hill, North Carolina : Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, 2009. 305 pages ; 21 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier When Ralph Truitt puts an advertisement in a Chicago paper for a "reliable wife", he gets Catherine Land, a woman who is anything but honest and will go to great ends to marry the man and kill him, leaving herself a wealthy widow. What she does not realize is that Ralph has a plan of his own. 20130905. Marriage Fiction. Family secrets Fiction. Wisconsin History 19th century Fiction. Historical fiction.