The Mark of Cain Author:Carolyn Wells When the body of Rowland Trowbridge, a successful businessman, is found in a remote corner of Van Cortlandt Park, it initially appeared to be a robbery gone wrong. In support of this theory there was the mysterious call from a woman with an Italian accent informing the police of where they could find the body and the fact that the fatal wound c... more »ame from a stiletto like blade. But when the only witness quotes the victim?s last words as ?Cain killed me? the focus of the investigation changes. Was ?Cain? just a biblical reference, or did it instead refer to the dead man?s nephew Kane Landon? Was there yet a third interpretation of the word? With little evidence at the scene of the crime and the circumstantial evidence against him, Landon finds himself on trial. There seems little chance of his acquittal, that is until the famous detective Fleming Stone is called in. With the assistance of the late victim?s office boy, Fibsy, it falls to him to unravel the meaning of ?The Mark of Cain.?« less