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Anonymous Killer Narrator
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This trope is frequently seen in modern day Mysteries and Thrillers. In between the regular narration of the book that features the detective trying to figure out the case, there are sometimes chapters written from the perspective of the serial killer. These chapters usually are written anonymously and/or gender neutral so as to disguise which of the known characters in the book it is that is doing the killing. Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_1'); })These chapters frequently describe in great, loving detail how much they lust after the heroine (or other target) and can't wait to rape, torture, and then kill them. They also give detail as to what information the killer has on the investigators on the case. Examples: |
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Sherlock Holmes (2009) cuts between Sherlock's investigations and the many unnatural killings committed by the villain, all without revealing how or why he committed the murders. | |
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Student Bodies has the killer, known as "The Breather", describe the action, at one point even directly addressing the audience to discuss the various suspects. | |
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The DLC for Assassin's Creed Syndicate features brief interludes where the player controls Jack the Ripper, long before his identity is revealed at the DLC's end. | |
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A variety of flashbacks in The Dark Knight Rises deal with the origin of Bane and an unnamed person he befriended in his prison. That person turns out to be Talia Al Ghul, the true leader of the League of Shadows who masterminded Bane's plan to control Gotham. | |
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Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix provides an in-universe example, wherein the title character has ominous dreams of some type of creature trying to break into a government facility. It turns out to be Voldemort's pet snake, Nagini, and the result of Harry's magical connection to the Dark Lord. | |
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Dialogues of the Dead from Dalziel and Pascoe, a series of novels by Reginald Hill. | |
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The movie Kiss the Girls starts with a voiceover by Casanova explaining his first twisted "relationship". | |
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Downplayed example with Aaron Burr, Jr., who is the narrator for most of Hamilton when the plot focuses on Alexander Hamilton whom he eventually shoots and kills in a duel. That Burr eventually kills him is stated out in the opening number (though the character playing Burr is not yet introduced as such at this point); most of the play following Alexander's life is an account of how everything led to that Duel to the Death. Throughout the play Burr acts as both himself and as narrator, which makes whether he's speaking as an outside narrator or as a character in the plot fuzzy at times, especially later on when It's Personal for him following "The Election of 1800". | |
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The Hercule Poirot story "The ABC Murders", explicitly marked as not being from Hastings' narrative. Subverted as he's only the Unwitting Pawn to the real murderer. | |
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The "I will be called a murderer" chapters of Orhan Pamuk's My Name Is Red. | |
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Alex Cross: Almost every book contains this, except for the ones where the killer's identity is known from the beginning. The movie Kiss the Girls starts with a voiceover by Casanova explaining his first twisted "relationship". |
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