History Main / AnonymousKillerNarrator

* Creator/StephenKing's ''The Dead Zone''.

In between the regular narration of the book that features the detective trying to figure out the case, there are sometimes chapters written from the perspective of the serial killer. These chapters usually are written [[Tropers/{{Anonymous}} anonymously]] and/or [[GenderNeutralWriting gender neutral]] so as to disguise which of the known characters in the book it is that is doing the killing.

* ''Literature/LostSouls'' by Poppy Z. Brite
* ''The Healer'' by Frank G. Slaughter
* ''Complicity'' by Creator/IainBanks
* Pretty much every Jeffrey Deaver book has these.
* The Spenser novel "Crimson Joy" has one, not usual for the series.

* Downplayed example with Aaron Burr, Jr., who is the narrator for most of ''Theatre/{{Hamilton}}'' when the plot focuses on UsefulNotes/AlexanderHamilton whom he eventually shoots and kills in a duel. That Burr eventually kills him is stated out in the opening number; most of the play following Alexander's life is an account of how everything led to that DuelToTheDeath.

* Mary Higgins Clark often uses this tactic also, right until the final confrontation.

* ''Film/StidentBodies'' has the killer, known as "The Breather", describe the action, at one point even directly addressing the audience to discuss the various suspects.

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* The 2009 ''Film/SherlockHolmes'' cuts between Sherlock's investigations and the many unnatural killings committed by the villain, all without revealing how or why he committed the murders.

These chapters frequently describe in great, loving detail how much they lust after the heroine (or other target) and can't wait to fuck/torture and then kill them. They also give detail as to what information the killer has on the investigators on the case.

* The HerculePoirot story "The ABC Murders", explicitly marked as not being from [[TheWatson Hastings']] narrative. [[spoiler: Subverted as he's only the UnwittingPawn to the real murderer.]]

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* {{Discussed}} by Blog/WorstMuse: "What if your narrator WERE the killer?!"

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* The opening number of ''Theatre/{{Hamilton}}'' is sung by show's whole cast, and the end of the song reveals their relations to the title character. The last one to describe himself, and the one who narrates throughout the show, is Aaron Burr, the man who killed Hamilton in 1804.