Raising the Dead

A detective discovers the ability to communicate with the dead, directly getting first-hand accounts of unsolved crimes.

Consider the implications of a detective having this unprecedented access to the truth. How would this impact detective work? What ethical questions arise? What will be the cost of this power? This prompt opens up a grand set of possibilities and encourages you to conjure up a supernatural detective story. It poses the challenge of blending the hard-boiled detective genre with elements of fantasy and speculative fiction.

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