Career
This is usually taken to be the first full-length detective novel in English. At some later time became the secretary of the Anti-Vivisection Society, on whose committee there served Mildred Coleridge, great-grand niece of the poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge, and daughter of John Coleridge, 1st Baron Coleridge (1820–1894), who became solicitor-general in 1868, attorney-general in 1871 and lord chief justice in 1873. When she left home to live with Adams, there was consternation in her family.
Her brother Bernard Coleridge wrote her a long letter attacking Adams.
The couple were married on 24 June 1885. They remained together until Adams"s death in July 1903.
His widow died in January 1929.