The story of what really happened to them that day gets 'curiouser and curiouser'. [=stranger and stranger]
The 'curious' [='inquisitive'] reader can find more information in the back of the book.
By a 'curious' coincidence, they bought a house the same day their old one burned down.
(..) I thought I could. I even promised my parents, but the feeling always comes back, and I have to do it again. I'm curious, the one you left on your neighbor's porch, the one you cut up, what made you decide to do that? (..)2018 TvShow: The Alienist Title: These Bloody Thoughts Season: 1 Episode 4