Life Comes to Judith, by Antoinette Spitzer (1931) (opens in new tab)

“Antoinette Spitzer’s heroine in Life Comes to Judith belongs to a comparatively new and, if one may judge by the book sales, an increasingly popular type of amorous adventuress: the young woman on her own,” declared the New York Times’ review. As the novel opens, Judith Zorn is on her own in more ways than one. She’s headed for the Brooklyn jail to interview a woman just arrested for the murder of her husband. She’s left her husband for a lover of uncertain reliability and fidelity. And she’...