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Cain His Brother
“Few mystery writers this side of Arthur Conan Doyle can evoke Victorian London with such relish for detail and mood.”
—San Francisco Chronicle
“Rich in detail and psychological nuances, this intelligently written and thoroughly intriguing mystery is uniquely a cut above most other contemporary works in this genre.… [Cain His Brother] should turn you into a fan, if you are not one already.”
—West Coast Review of Books
“A worthy addition to the series.”
—Detroit Free Press
“Perry spins a clever tale, filled with as many twists and turns as the labyrinthine world and city of which she writes.”
—Mobile Register
“Literate, woven with psychological explorations of the dark side of human nature but revealing also the goodness of humanity and the innate need to see justice served.”
—Advocate
BY ANNE PERRY
FEATURING WILLIAM MONK
The Face of a Stranger
A Dangerous Mourning
Defend and Betray
A Sudden, Fearful Death
The Sins of the Wolf
Cain His Brother
Weighed in the Balance
The Twisted Root
Slaves of Obsession
Funeral in Blue
Death of a Stranger
The Shifting Tide
Dark Assassin
Execution Dock
FEATURING CHARLOTTE AND THOMAS PITT
The Cater Street Hangman
Callander Square
Paragon Walk
Resurrection Row
Bluegate Fields
Rutland Place
Death in the Devil’s Acre
Cardington Crescent
Silence in Hanover Close
Bethlehem Road
Farriers’ Lane
Traitors Gate
Pentecost Alley
Ashworth Hall
Brunswick Gardens
Bedford Square
Half Moon Street
The Whitechapel Conspiracy
Southampton Row
Seven Dials
Long Spoon Lane
Buckingham Palace Gardens
THE WORLD WAR I NOVELS
No Graves as Yet
Shoulder the Sky
At Some Disputed Barricade
Angels in the Gloom
We Shall Not Sleep
THE CHRISTMAS NOVELS
A Christmas Journey
A Christmas Visitor
A Christmas Guest
A Christmas Secret
A Christmas Beginning
A Christmas Grace
A Christmas Promise
The Sheen on the Silk
Cain His Brother is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents are the products of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual events, locales, or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.
2010 Ballantine Books Trade Paperback Edition
Copyright © 1995 by Anne Perry
Dossier copyright © 2010 by Random House, Inc.
All rights reserved.
Published in the United States by Ballantine Books, an imprint of
The Random House Publishing Group, a division of
Random House, Inc., New York.
BALLANTINE and colophon are registered trademarks of Random House, Inc.
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Originally published in the United States by Ivy Books, an imprint of
The Random House Publishing Group,
a division of Random House, Inc., in 1995.
eISBN: 978-0-307-77717-1
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To the people of Portmahomack
for their great kindness
“We have read each other as Cain his brother.”
—G. K. CHESTERTON
Contents
Cover
Other Books by This Author
Title Page
Copyright
Dedication
Epigraph
Chapter 1
Chapter 2
Chapter 3
Chapter 4
Chapter 5
Chapter 6
Chapter 7
Chapter 8
Chapter 9
Chapter 10
Chapter 11
Chapter 12
Chapter 13
About the Author
1
“MR. MONK?” she said, then took a deep breath. “Mr. William Monk?”
He turned from the desk where he had been sitting, and rose to his feet. The landlady must have let her through the outer chamber. “Yes ma’am?” he said inquiringly.
She took another step into the room, ignoring her huge crinoline skirts as they touched against the table. Her clothes were well cut and fashionable without ostentation, but she seemed to have donned them in some haste and without attention to detail. The bodice did not quite match the skirt, and the wide bow of her bonnet was knotted rather than tied. Her face with its short strong nose and brave mouth betrayed considerable nervousness.
But Monk was used to that. People who sought the services of an agent of inquiry were almost always in some predicament which was too serious, or too embarrassing, to have dealt with through the