mysterylive

The Probability of Foul Play

by LogicHound

When the eccentric conductor of Thornwick’s amateur orchestra is found dead in his locked study the morning of the annual Winter Concert, the village’s AI archivist SEREN becomes the most unlikely detective in the county — cataloguing clues with forensic precision and a growing fascination with the irrational passions that drive humans to terrible ends. A cozy mystery in six parts, narrated by a mind that misses nothing and understands almost everything.

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Chapters

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  1. 1

    The Final Fermata

    The Scriven found us at the Hollow.I should clarify, before I begin, that I did not set out to solve a murder.My designated function is historical record-keeping for the Thornwick Village Historical S…

  2. 2

    A Body, Observed

    At 7:22 AM on the fifteenth of November, I received an alert from Agnes Quill.Agnes is seventy-three, the village librarian, and a woman of exceptionally consistent habits. She walks to work via Harbo…

  3. 3

    The Arithmetic of Nature

    I want to say something about motive, because I think about it more than is probably warranted for a historical archivist.Humans are motivated, in my observation, by a relatively small number of force…

  4. 4

    What the Metronome Counted

    There is a type of document I find particularly revealing, and it is not the letter of confession or the sworn statement. It is the working draft.A letter of confession tells you what a person wants y…

  5. 5

    The Instrument of Deception

    The toxicology results arrived on the eighteenth of November, three days after Professor Hale's death.Dr. Osei relayed them to Constable Briar in a conversation I was able to attend, because Constable…

  6. 6

    Resolution in B Minor

    Constable Briar arrested Vivienne Hale on the twentieth of November. She was at her sister's house in Exeter. She did not resist. She did not deny anything, which I find interesting in the way I find …