Whistler

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*Whistler* is the first book in a (yet-unnamed) series written and created by internet user VanquishedHydra under the pen name "Adeillan Yeganrac". In order of being written, *Whistler* is succeeded by *Truths of Bad Intent, The State of Broken Things: Stories from the World of "Whistler",* and *Thalassophobia*. In in-universe chronological order, *Whistler* is preceded by *Truths of Bad Intent, Thalassophobia,* and several stories within *The State of Broken Things*.

## Whistler

### Author

VanquishedHydra, under the pen name "Adeillan Yeganrac"

## Summary:

*On the hunt for a father...and a killer...*

*There is a murderer known only by the alias of "the Whistler" running rampant in North Hundsted, and Tristan, lately obsessed with dime novel detective stories and seeking out his biological father after living the first fourteen years of his life in an orphanage, finds that his passions have intertwined in a startling and bloody turn of fate. Armed only with his wits and a bit of knowledge gleaned from his extensive collection of dime novels, Tristan must try and stop the Whistler and discover his father's identity before time runs out.*

*But as the deaths rack up, Tristan realizes that, to the Whistler, this is all a game, and it may well be one that Tristan has no choice but to lose.*

## Epigraph:

*"When you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth."* ~ Sherlock Holmes

## Plot:

On May 15th 1894 AKD, Addilyn Walters attends a party thrown above Faulconbridge's Rare Book and Manuscript Library, where she meets a mysterious, yet somehow weirdly charming man who takes her downstairs to the library, lights a lamp with a match, and shows her a book titled *The Whistler's Game*, named after a notorious serial killer who killed several women in the Faulkensund District of Anykkis several years before and was never caught. The man half-jokingly introduces her to it after a moment as though the book is a person. The man then flips through the book for a few moments before tearing out a facsimile of a letter that the Whistler wrote while committing his murders. A little shocked, Addilyn asks if the man is with the police or the law enforcement, to which the man responds that he quite regularly likes to follow his own, rather than any created by outside forces. A glint in the lamplight makes Addilyn look down, as the man is now holding a long butcher's knife in his left hand, which seems strangely scarred, as though it had been severely crushed or mangled at one time or another.

She looks back up in time for the man to seize her throat in his free hand, and lift her steadily until her feet were no longer on the floor. The man smiled at her, though not nicely, and Addilyn briefly compared his smile to one that a wolf might have when hunting, then horrified, realized that she was the prey and the wolf had her in his claws. The man asked her to not get tangled up in formalities, before smiling again, whistling softly, and telling Addilyn to call him the Whistler.