A Feigned Madness

Elizabeth Cochrane has a secret.

She isn’ t the madwoman with amnesia the doctors and inmates at Blackwell’ s Asylum think she is.

In truth, she’ s working undercover for the New York World. When the managing editor refuses to hire her because she’ s a woman, Elizabeth strikes a deal: in exchange for a job, she’ ll impersonate a lunatic to expose a local...