title: The Quiet Twin: A Novel
author:  Dan Vyleta 
description: *Starred Review* When the police show up to investigate the corpse in an apartment courtyard, they immediately tug on his hair to make sure it is not a wig. In the endlessly deceptive world Vyleta unfolds, such skepticism about appearances is essential. And no one needs such skepticism more than Herr Doktor Anton Beer, the novels protagonist. Accustomed to dealing with the hidden illnesses lurking in the seemingly healthy and the feigned sicknesses of malingerers, this cagy physician unexpectedly finds himself prying for clues revealing who has recently butchered a local professors dog and, perhaps with the same knife, also murdered four humans.Through Beers sharp eyes, readers peer through peepholes, stare through parted curtains, catch fugitive images in mirrors, and scan stairwells, all the while assessing the inscrutable features of the residents of a Viennese apartment complex in 1939: a paralyzed woman shrouded in mysterious secrecy; her twin, a stealthy mime; a bookish Japanese trumpet player; a reclusive widow; an attractive hypochondriac; a drunken janitor. As Vyleta weaves his taut narrative, readers strive with Beer for that acuteness of vision necessary to anticipate and explain the ominous twists of events played out in the shadow of Nazi fanaticism. Dark and disturbing, a novel of rare sophistication. --Bryce Christensen
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  # The Wrong Twin
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  ### Harry Leon Wilson
  
  
  
  
  
    
  
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  CHAPTER I
  
  
  CHAPTER II
  
  
  CHAPTER III
  
  
  CHAPTER IV
  
  
  CHAPTER V
  
  
  CHAPTER VI
  
  
  CHAPTER VII
  
  
  CHAPTER VIII
  
  
  CHAPTER IX
  
  
  CHAPTER X
  
  
  CHAPTER XI
  
  
  CHAPTER XII
  
  
  CHAPTER XIII
  
  
  CHAPTER XIV
  
  
  CHAPTER XV
  
  
  CHAPTER XVI
  
  
  CHAPTER XVII
  
  
  CHAPTER XVIII
  
  
  CHAPTER XIX
  
  
  CHAPTER XX
  
  
  CHAPTER XXI
  
  
  CHAPTER XXII
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
      
  
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  THE WRONG TWIN
  
  
  BY HARRY LEON WILSON
  
  
  
  
  
  1921
  
  
  
  
  
  TO HELEN AND LEON
  
  
  
  
  
  [Illustration: “THE GIRL NOW GLOWERED AT EACH OF THEM IN TURN. 'I
  
  
  DON'T CARE!' SHE MUTTERED. 'I WILL, TOO, RUN AWAY!'“]
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  ### CHAPTER I
  
  
  
  
  
    
  
  
    
  An establishment in Newbern Center, trading under the name of the
  
  
  Foto Art Shop, once displayed in its window a likeness of the twin sons
  
  
  of Dave Cowan. Side by side, on a lavishly fringed plush couch, 