Question 34. Can the poor ever get justice? In the land of Ricossa, rich people use brutal and permanent methods to protect their secrets. An eccentric pauper is knocked down and killed in a tavern. Drunken manslaughter or deliberate murder? The victim’s niece Hridnaya is determined to find out which. But the case has already been closed. She’s an insignificant servant. She can’t read or write. And she can’t talk.