The Female Inspector Forced Me to Investigate, So I Turned Around and Cracked the Ghostly Murder Plot
My name is Shen Qing, a lowly janitor at Qingya Academy.
I only wanted to scrape together a living, but then someone died at the academy.
The authorities said the teacher had been killed by ghosts, and the students were so terrified they knelt and prayed for divine protection.
I took one look at the body and flipped the case table over.
The door bolt had been pulled with waxed thread. The window latch had been greased with lard. Someone had swept the dust on the floor again.
What ghost?
Clearly, someone had killed a man and wanted to use the dead to keep him quiet.
The female inspector, Su Jinghong, conscripted me into the investigation team on the spot. Five taels a month, room and board included, and a threat to throw me in jail if I failed to solve the case in three days.
I thought it was just a locked-room murder at an academy.
But when a second body turned up, I realized Qingya Prefecture was hiding more than one death.
It was an old case from ten years ago, one that had been burned away.
And somehow, I seem to be part of that case too.
