His Third Wife

Over 150 years ago, in fact in 1862, Mary Elizabeth Braddon published a book called Lady Audley's Secret which went on the become a best seller at that time, and over the years the book has been serialized and films have been made based on this book. The literary fashion in those days was accidental bigamy, and in the book the heroine deserts her child, pushes husband number one down a well, thinks about poisoning husband number two, and then sets fire to a hotel in which all her male acquaintances are residing.
In Adam's novella a man whose middle name is by coincidence Audley is happily married with three daughters, and in his travels he stays in various small quest houses. Over years he is seduced by daughters in each house, and when each becomes pregnant he "marries" each of them. The "scandal" does not become public until he loses his job, sues for unfair dismissal, and is awarded substantial damages.