The Oxford Murders

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Using rules and axioms, there will always be some propositions that can't be proved either true or false. But can this apply to murder.
Godel's Theorem of Incompleteness is familiar territory to the young South American mathematician who arrives in Oxford. Murder, however, is not. Yet no long after he has greeted his elderly landlady - and her rather luscious granddaughter - he is bidding her a posthumous farewell. Mrs Egleton is found lying dead on a chaise longue, her eyes wide open in terror. The only clue to the crime is a cryptic symbol and the words of the first series.

It's not much to go on, but it is enough to appeal to Arthur Seldom, one of the leading minds in logic. His most famous work of philosophy contains a chapter on serial killers. This killer clearly has read it. And the second murder of an elderly hospital patient, confirms that his methods of killing are deliberately designed to appeal to mathematicians. And that he's an intellectual megalomaniac...