That main character is stabbed to death by his wife Winnie after he accidentally kills her brother, the mentally challenged Stevie.
This novel ends with a character repeatedly contemplating whether the action of a woman drowning herself in the English Channel, leaving behind only her wedding ring, is an "act of madness or despair." In another scene of this novel, a man with a hook for a hand who drives a hansom cab incites fear in its protagonist. Its title character produces pamphlets titled "The Future of the Proletariat," and has frequent anarchist meetings with Ossipon and The Professor. That main character is stabbed to death by his wife Winnie after he accidentally kills her brother, the mentally challenged Stevie. Chief Inspector Heat investigates Adolf Verloc for blowing up Greenwich Observatory, in, for 10 points, what Joseph Conrad novel about espionage?
This novel ends with a character repeatedly contemplating whether the action of a woman drowning herself in the English Channel, leaving behind only her wedding ring, is an "act of madness or despair.
The Secret Agent