Project Gutenberg 2014-02-08 Public domain in the USA. 225 Wells, Carolyn 1862 1942 Houghton, Carolyn Wells Hoskins, Gayle Porter 1887 1962 The Mark of Cain Produced by Stephen Hutcheson, Mardi Desjardins and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This book was produced from scanned images of public domain material from the Google Print project.) "The Mark of Cain" by Carolyn Wells is a detective novel written in the early 20th century. The story revolves around the mysterious murder of Rowland Trowbridge, a wealthy naturalist. His niece, Avice, is determined to uncover the truth behind her uncle's death, despite the somber backdrop of grief and the conflicting personalities in her household, including her uncle's fiancée, Mrs. Black, and the lawyer, Judge Hoyt. At the start of the novel, we are introduced to Avice’s anxious wait for her uncle, who never returns home at the expected time. Her worry escalates into despair when she learns of Rowland Trowbridge’s violent death in Van Cortlandt Park. The narrative unfolds through a series of telephone conversations and police investigations, establishing key characters including the stern Judge Hoyt and the enigmatic Mrs. Black. As Avice grapples with her uncle's death, determined to find the killer, the tension rises with hints of familial conflict and secrets that may lead to the resolution of the crime. (This is an automatically generated summary.) file:///public/vhost/g/gutenberg/html/files/44841/44841-h/images/cover.jpg Reading ease score: 84.5 (6th grade). Easy to read. en Fiction Detective and mystery stories PS Text Category: Crime, Thrillers and Mystery Category: Novels 506628 2025-08-18T08:11:45.997166 text/html 514424 2024-10-24T02:17:15 text/html 274367 2025-08-18T08:11:54.364113 application/epub+zip 293832 2025-08-18T08:11:47.972130 application/epub+zip 255419 2025-08-18T08:11:46.941106 application/epub+zip 447391 2025-08-18T08:11:58.815051 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 402250 2025-08-18T08:11:53.516087 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 364052 2022-09-20T13:12:49.509651 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 459469 2025-08-18T08:11:44.202161 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 439577 2024-10-24T02:17:14 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 17313 2025-08-18T08:11:58.960058 application/rdf+xml 17888 2025-08-18T08:11:47.047122 image/jpeg 2677 2025-08-18T08:11:46.994104 image/jpeg 256294 2025-08-18T08:11:46.041146 application/octet-stream application/zip Archives containing the RDF files for *all* our books can be downloaded at https://book.klll.cc/wiki/Gutenberg:Feeds#The_Complete_Project_Gutenberg_Catalog en.wikipedia en.wikipedia More titles under Wright, Rowland