When Gunther finds a dead man on some railroad tracks, he smells foul play. His suspicions are confirmed when an anonymous tip links the killing to another grisly murder. As he looks into the killings and grows puzzled, Gunther recalls the old maxim--Occam's Razor--which implies that too many theories can muddle clear thinking.
The body was positioned so that the train neatly obliterated its head and hands. Dressed in a homeless man's clothes with empty pockets, it might easily be passed-off as an unfortunate John Doe. And yet... Joe Gunther has a knack for knowing when things don't quite add up, and the math in this case is all kinds of wrong. Add a toxic waste dumping scheme, a stabbing, and a whole lot of state politics... if Occam's razor were applied to Gunther's caseload, how many incisions would it make?