Empty Testimony

Name: Empty Testimony
Author: Bluebird And Kitten

by Bluebird And Kitten

ongoing Suspense Detective Mystery Male Lead

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39Kwords6chapters

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Ch. 6 — Untitled

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About This Novel

When a city begins to murder in philosophical ways, only those closest to the void can see the truth. Deep in the rainy Gothic city, a series of ritual murders quietly occurred. Each corpse is a carefully arranged "proposition": the theater manager with his heart ripped out sits on the abandoned stage, like an audience watching his own death; the judge with his hands sewn together hangs under the court scale; the poet with the pupils replaced by lenses lies among the ancient books in the library. A rare philosophical book was left at each scene, with frantic annotations on existence and nothingness written on the margins. Detective Henry Lake, who is responsible for these cases, is called a ghost by his colleagues not only because he always works late at night, but also because of the alienation from the world in his eyes. He believes that rational order can explain all chaos, until the murders begin to speak directly to him, until he discovers that he is not an investigator, but a chosen special audience. The murderer calls himself the "director" and turns the entire city into a dark theater. His victim was not chosen randomly, but was related to an old case thirty years ago: that night at the La Fenice Theater, the performance of "Waiting for Godot" ended with the mysterious death of a young actor. The case was hastily classified as suicide and buried in the dust of time. Now, the dead return and use their corpses to write philosophical treatises on revenge. The first is the clue to the series of murders and why he was involved in this cruel drama. As the investigation deepens, he discovers that his connection with the old case is deeper than imagined, and the murderer's real purpose is not to punish, but to prove a proposition: in a universe of nothingness, only well-designed death can give weight to existence.