The Legacy of Cain Book

I've been on another Wilkie binge recently, with The Guilty River and The Haunted Hotel, which were pretty much in his potboiler collection (although still good compared to many writers) but he's definitely on form with The Legacy of Cain, a 19th century tale of nature v. nurture. He keeps switching point of view, which he always does with great effect (cf The Moonstone and The Woman in White). You're just getting to a crucial denouement when you start galloping off in another direction.
Fabulous characters: I won't say anything about them so that you can make up your own mind.
My fave quote: She went about, from one place to another, curing people of all sorts of painful maladies, by a way she had of rubbing them with her hands. In Belgium she was called a "Masseuse." When I asked what this meant in English, I was told, "Medical Rubber."