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[[Complete Monster]]: Arguably Thurman Parks III, Lawson's client.

[[Frame Up]]: Lawson experiences one. [[spoiler: The book was used to test Lawson, since his attempting to withdraw from the case

[[Frame-Up]]: Lawson experiences one. [[spoiler: The book was used to test Lawson, since his attempting to withdraw from the case

made the killer reevaluate him. So he disguised himself as an old Englishman named Christopher Marlowe, who shows him the book and then apparently dies, allowing Lawson to pass it off as his own. Christopher Marlowe, as Lawson finds out, was a famous English writer well known for his adapting the Medieval legend of Faust into a play, in which the main character makes a pact with the Devil (which the killer dressed as in the beginning when he went to kill Lawson). In another disguise, he called himself Goethe, after the German philosopher and writer who also adapted Faust. When Lawson passed the book off as his own, it made him seem to be the killer himself, and have the motive too, as a disbarred lawyer disgusted with the legal profession. The photos planted in his house clinch the frame up]].

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[[Off On a Technicality]]: {{spoiler|The man who killed Corvus' family was let go due to one of these , triggering his [[Start of Darkness]]}}.

[[Serial Killer]]: {{spoiler|Professor Arthur Corvus, whose killings Lawson is suspected of committing due to a [[Frame Up]]}}.

[[Serial Killer]]: {{spoiler|Professor Arthur Corvus, whose killings Lawson is suspected of committing due to a [[Frame-Up]]}}.

[[Start of Darkness]]: {{spoiler|Corvus' occurs when the hit and run driver who killed his family got [[Off On a Technicality]]. He saw that the man was remorseful, but his lawyer simply delighted in winning (and his pay of course). So he became Corvus first victim, and other [[Amoral Attorneys]] followed}}.

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