Search Results: 'Cao Kun'

The Corpse in the Study

Words: 2987 · Source Novel:: The Symmetry of Guilt

October 1923, Beijing. Legislator Ma Zhuang, who profited from Cao Kun's vote-buying, is stabbed to death. His ascetic secretary Wen Zhai, who lives by an ironclad moral and temporal code, discovers the body. Inspector Chen finds a bloody letter opener with Wen's prints and a witness who saw him enter at the fatal hour. Wen is arrested, his rigid daily log his only defense.