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Case 417
Paperback
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Jan 25 2026
Pages: 104
Weight: 0.29
Height: 0.25 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
A criminal case appears in an archive and deletes itself seventeen minutes later.
No defendant.
No charge.
No verdict on record.
Only one phrase remains:
Custody until resolution.
As a legal archivist begins tracing the residue of the case-vanished transcripts, erased identities, sealed courtrooms-he discovers the trial was never meant to end.
What starts as a clerical anomaly becomes something far more disturbing: a legal mechanism designed to imprison without walls, sentences, or names.
CASE 417 is a chilling psychological legal thriller about procedure without mercy, legality without closure, and a system that survives by never concluding what it begins.
Once legality turns inward, innocence becomes irrelevant.
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