The Cain Saga series features the blasé heir to a noble family (the main character Cain, with his tragic past and hobby of collecting poisons), his faithful butler Riff, plenty of lovely ladies and bishonen, and a bunch of mysteries to solve.
There are five volumes in the series. The first two are full of short one-off stories. Most of the third volume is one story. And the last two volumes (called volumes 4, part 1 and 2) comprise one longer story featuring a Jack the Ripper theme (sound familiar, Black Butler fans?). That longer story is full of all flavors of awesome.
As always, I enjoy Kaori Yuki’s artwork a great deal, but it is the way she tells her stories that really sets her apart, in my view. If I ever take to writing mysteries, or even just heavily plot-based stories, I would turn to her work as an example of how to construct such stories.
