Johannes Mario Simmel's novel “The Secret Conspiracy of Cain” is built in the sonata mosaic form of a musical symphony. The central figures of the novel are the brothers Richie and Werner, who have hated each other since birth. They are in love with the femme fatale Lillian and for many years, in a devilish chain of successive betrayals and ever new surges of passion, they achieve the reciprocity of their beloved with varying success...