Young illustrator Gregory Boyle dreams of becoming an internationally recognized artist. And life gave him a chance, turning the creator into a murderer, and evidence of a crime into his first masterpiece. Gregory accidentally takes the life of a robber who broke into the house, whose blood falls in a hypnotizing pattern on the canvas. The dead man takes up residence in the artist’s head and pushes him into more and more experiments – until an eccentric private detective with a dark past comes onto the killer’s trail. In search of new sources of inspiration, the main character, tormented by nightmares, gradually slides into the seething abyss of madness... Editor's comment: Cold as a razor blade, indifferent as the barrel of a pistol, making the soul tremble like any bladed weapon - there is no better way to describe the novel "The First Masterpiece" , whose name speaks for itself. Contains obscene language