THE THIRD BROTHER
ANDY HAYES MYSTERIES
by Andrew Welsh-Huggins
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The Third Brother
THE THIRD BROTHER
AN ANDY HAYES MYSTERY
ANDREW WELSH-HUGGINS
SWALLOW PRESS
OHIO UNIVERSITY PRESS
ATHENS
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© 2018 by Andrew Welsh-Huggins
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Names: Welsh-Huggins, Andrew, author.
Title: The third brother : an Andy Hayes mystery / Andrew Welsh-Huggins.
Description: Athens, Ohio : Swallow Press, Ohio University Press, [2018] | Series: Andy Hayes mysteries
Identifiers: LCCN 2017058847| ISBN 9780804011945 (hardback) | ISBN 9780804040860 (pdf)
Subjects: LCSH: Private investigators--Fiction. | Columbus (Ohio)--Fiction. | GSAFD: Mystery fiction.
Classification: LCC PS3623.E4824 T48 2018 | DDC 813/.6--dc23
LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2017058847
In memory of Landree Rennpage, 1984–2016
Fellow Kenyon College classics major,
devoted reader, aspiring writer
Postea vero, quam Tyrannio mihi libros disposuit, mens addita videtur meis aedibus.
—Cicero, letter to Atticus at Rome, CXI (A IV)
“I have always dreamed,” he mouthed fiercely, “of
a band of men absolute in their resolve to discard
all scruples in the choice of means, strong enough
to give themselves frankly the name of destroyers,
and free from the taint of that resigned pessimism
which rots the world. No pity for anything on earth,
including themselves, and death enlisted for good
and all in the service of humanity.”
—Joseph Conrad, The Secret Agent
Ah how shameless—the way these mortals blame the gods.
From us alone, they say, come all their miseries, yes,
but they themselves, with their own reckless ways,
compound their pains beyond their proper share.”
—Homer, The Odyssey, Robert Fagles translation
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