@DrPavel - Disagree on the latter, but that's beside the point. He serves two important functions in the story: Firstly, he's a plot device to move the story from place to place and introduce all the other characters in an organic manner. Secondly, he's a reader surrogate/viewpoint character to...
Wow, until that last line it hadn't occurred to me how similar this actually is to Dostoyevsky's Crime and Punishment (in broad strokes, anyway). Man breaks into an apartment, is surprised by the return of one of its occupants, commits a murder in the heat of the moment, spends the rest of the...
Thanks for the chapter!
Just a note for future reference: "too much people" isn't technically proper English and sounds rather awkward. It should be "too many people." ("Much" is used for kinds of stuff, while "many" is used for discrete things.)
"There's too much water in my glass."
"How much...