Chapter 27

“‘Man Kills Brother in Spiritualism Row,’” Cameron read aloud. “Wife gravely wounded.”

Reid took the article back and placed it near one of the seats at the table. “You can read that later, when your hands aren’t covered in stuff. Basically Samuel decided that he’d had enough of his brother’s blasphemy, went next door, and stabbed him with a kitchen knife. Ten times,” he added. “He got Amalia too, twenty times, but it seems like all of her Victorian underpinnings helped her to survive a little while. She only lived for a day, but it was long enough to identify Samuel as the killer.”