The Death of Raffles

From Middlemarch by George Eliot
The morally ambiguous death of the blackmailer Raffles entangles Lydgate in Bulstrode's disgrace and ruins his career.
Chapter 69-70

Bulstrode allows the housekeeper to give Raffles brandy against Lydgate's orders; Lydgate accepts Bulstrode's loan and is later implicated.

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