The Killer and the Slain

I, John Ozias Talbot, aged thirty-six years and three months, being
in my perfectly sane mind, wish to write down this statement.

I do so entirely and solely for my own benefit and profit--in fact,
for the quietening of my disturbed mind. It is most improbable
that anyone other than myself will read this document, but should
anything happen to me and I die without destroying this writing, I
wish the reader, whoever he or she may be, to realize fully that no
one could conceivably be of a more compl...