I’m Lin Shen, a detective who has solved 12 “impossible crimes.”
Until the day my wife disappeared, leaving behind only a copy of The Ten Commandments of Detective Fiction, open on the table.
For the next three years, every time I took on a new case, I found someone had been setting the stage for me:
elevator falls, locked-room poisonings, staged car accidents, sudden deaths in hospitals...
Twenty-five perfect crimes, and in every case, the killer was waiting for me to solve it.
It wasn’t until I tracked down the mysterious ID “Doctor” that I discovered the truth:
She had been turning my life into a novel all along.
Note: This is a work of fiction. Any addresses mentioned are included solely for the story and have no connection to real places with the same names.