The Coffin Stays Closed...Charlatan! ...& other minor crimes!

By Thomas Tomazo Pagonis

The Coffin Stays Closed... (Charlatan )
...& Other Minor Crimes
By Tomazo (Thomas) Pagonis

A literary crime doesn't have to be solved. It just has to be exquisitely committed.

Enter the mind of Pentheus H.-a man of refinement, philosophical appetite, and one peculiar hobby: "creative ruinings." In a voice both chilling and charming, his self-appointed psychiatrist narrates a descent into madness-or is it genius?-where death becomes a work of art, and dismemberment a metaphysical inquiry. The central novella is an audacious blend of satire, psychological horror, and philosophical fiction.

But the crimes do not end there.

In the second part-"Other Minor Crimes"-the reader is served a sharp cocktail of short stories, monologues, and allegories. Bureaucrats haunt their own offices, small-town murders grow mythic, and a woman's back becomes the canvas for the history of modern art. Somewhere between black comedy and philosophical theatre, these tales whisper a shared truth: everyone is guilty, and no one is quite innocent.

So then... who is to be blamed?
(Aside, of course, from the author-who so recklessly unleashed his characters
to commit such monumental "minor" crimes.)

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0F5M9GK9S
• ISBN13: 9798280414266
• Release Date: April 2025
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 144 Pages
• Weight: 0.44 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 6.0" x 9.0"