Valheen verkko : Romaani
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"Valheen verkko" by Harry Sidney Warwick is a novel written in the early 20th century. It is a moral drama of deception, guilt, and identity, centering on respected solicitor Hartley Lathom, his young wife Margot, and their former friend and accuser Rickard Jardine as a lawsuit and unresolved love reshape their lives. The tone blends legal intrigue, domestic tension, and psychological suspense with a hint of possible redemption. The opening of the novel shows Lathom emerging from court under Jardine’s claim that he misused his late mother’s funds, while Margot suppresses lingering feelings for Jardine. At home Lathom confesses moral and actual wrongdoing, begs Margot to ask Jardine to halt the case, and she finds Jardine had already decided to withdraw for her sake; the two acknowledge a past attachment, but she refuses to leave her husband. Returning, Margot momentarily lies that Jardine refused; in the ensuing despair Lathom fatally shoots his disgraced clerk Fenwick during a drunken intrusion, then forces a cover-up: Fenwick is dressed as Lathom, the death staged as Lathom’s suicide, and Hartley flees under the alias David Muir. In London he reads of his own “burial,” is pierced by a tender letter from Fenwick’s sweetheart, and, tormented by guilt, stumbles into a city fire where he impulsively rescues a child—hinting that his path may turn toward atonement.
