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The Legacy of Cain
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A Victorian novel exploring whether the daughter of an executed murderess will inherit her mother's criminal nature or be shaped instead by her upbringing. Suitable for readers interested in classic mystery fiction and the nineteenth-century debate over heredity versus environment.
Wilkie Collins
William Wilkie Collins was an English novelist and playwright known especially for The Woman in White (1860), a mystery novel and early sensation novel, and for The Moonstone (1868), which established many of the ground rules of the modern detective novel and is also perhaps the earliest clear example of the police procedural genre.
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