Is Heathcliff a murderer?

Great puzzles in nineteenth-century literature. Can Jane Eyre be happy?

de John Sutherland

Readers of Victorian fiction must often have tripped up on seeming anomalies, enigmas, and mysteries in their favourite novels. Does Becky kill Jos at the end of "Vanity Fair"? Why does no one notice that Hetty is pregnant in "Adam Bede"? How, exactly, does Victor Frankenstein make his monster? In "Is Heathcliff a murderer?" (well, is he?) John Sutherland investigates thirty-four conundrums of nineteenth-century fiction