The victims, despite their brilliant professional reputations, are revealed to have built their careers on:

The story is set during a prestigious congress of historians held at the . An anonymous killer begins "settling accounts" by targeting high-profile professors, exposing a deep-seated system of corruption, hypocrisy, and opportunism within the university hierarchy.

: The plot involves unpublished texts used to manipulate historical truths, such as blocking the canonization of Isabella the Catholic or debunking myths like the "Gold of Moscow". About the Author