No Motive

Mary Farren is the happiest woman. She is young, beautiful, desirable. She lives in a wealthy house, married to the man she loves, and is waiting for his child. Her life, it seems, is cloudless. But one morning, this young lady wakes up in her bed, sees her husband off to work, exchanges banal phrases with the servants, and then goes to the gun room. There she cleans and loads a revolver, and—putting the barrel to her temple—pulls the trigger.

Suicide without any visible reason.

Why? What for? It’s unclear…

A professional detective, Mr. Black—obsessed with the idea that every person keeps dark secrets deep inside—takes up answering these questions. And to extract them, you only need to dig a little deeper…