The Messenger Boy Murders

I returned home after a long journey to find a black cloud hanging over the city, but it was an unspoken rule for the inhabitants never to discuss evil happenings. If something was going wrong, everyone waited patiently until the evil ended before talking about it. So in this city where there were at most three murders a year, to hear of serial murder — moreover of messenger boy murder — was no trifling matter.Unwillingly charged with investigating mysterious deaths among the citys fleet of seemingly perfect, ageless messenger boys, Stavrogin encounters the citys strange and charismatic characters, and its even stranger secret — a program of genetic engineering.The Messenger Boy Murders is a swift, darkly comic and entertaining novel about the multiplicity of human character and our exasperating yet essential flaws and contradictions.

I returned home after a long journey to find a black cloud hanging over the city, but it was an unspoken rule for the inhabitants never to discuss evil happenings. If something was going wrong, everyone waited patiently until the evil ended before talking about it. So in this city where there were at most three murders a year, to hear of serial murder — moreover of messenger boy murder — was no trifling matter.Unwillingly charged with investigating mysterious deaths among the citys fleet of seemingly perfect, ageless messenger boys, Stavrogin encounters the citys strange and charismatic characters, and its even stranger secret — a program of genetic engineering.The Messenger Boy Murders is a swift, darkly comic and entertaining novel about the multiplicity of human character and our exasperating yet essential flaws and contradictions.