Death out of Nowhere by Alexis Gensoul & Charles Grenier

Author:Alexis Gensoul & Charles Grenier [Gensoul, Alexis]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Locked Room International
Published: 2020-02-07T23:00:00+00:00

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‘My God!’ thought Darlay. ‘Why didn’t I think of it before? Was it a detective story plot that Beaurieux was constructing to propose to Dublard, or was he planning to write it himself?’

Yes, but Beaurieux was dead within a minute of Dublard’s demonstration, just as Antoine de Malèves was dead within a minute of Beaurieux’s.

The journalist, his head in his hands, felt he was losing his reason as his thoughts whirled inside his cranium like a flock of startled birds.

Coincidences? Maybe... No, surely. And all the good reasons which Dublard had accumulated to convince Le Bellec, Darlay found to convince himself.

But even if there were coincidences, that didn’t clear up the puzzle. What sense could be made of those two stupid murders with nothing resembling a motive to explain them? And just who could be the perpetrator? None of the residents of the manor could have physically executed them; none of the peasants in the region was capable of such an infernal ingenuity and, furthermore, no strange presence had been detected in the park or its surroundings in the last two days.

In any case, a murderer, even unknown, even vanished, can be sensed... they leave traces. In all the criminal cases the journalist had covered in the last few years, he always had the normal impression of a flesh-and-blood culprit. Here, not so... Death occurred, engendered by an act manifestly lacking any human intervention, as if by spontaneous generation.

Even so, a bullet which kills doesn’t come out of thin air and through walls simply by incantation. If one could imagine that a magical operation could kill from afar, like for example, a terribly rapid bewitchment (if bewitchments exist), then death would arrive in the form of a simple cessation of life, an inhibition of the nervous system... The death itself would appear natural, even though it might be inexplicable. But there wouldn’t be a wound from a weapon. Magical waves, magnetic or otherwise, don’t use revolvers!

Therefore there must be a weapon somewhere, fired at close range or from afar by some unknown means. And, like it or not, the bare fact was that there was only one light in the darkness: Beaurieux’s little notebook... Without it....

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