This is an unconventional mystery. There is no detective acting to solve a crime. Essentially, the reader is the detective. At story's beginning there is a body in the library. Determined to solve the mystery, readers will be thinking about the body throughout their reading. From its start there are clues to this story's strange chronology. These are reasons why this story is an unconventional mystery. Also because its five Gottheimite narrators are dead. Ghostly witnesses.