I Really Just Want to Be a Pure Detective!

Thrust into the body of Jim Hacker, a transmigrator’s worst nightmare begins when his very first deduction reveals a terrifying truth: Jim Hacker is already dead. Months later, the brilliant yet broke detective tries to maintain a spotless reputation—or at least pretend to. When loyal assistant Humphrey dangles unpaid rent and a wealthy, elegant widow with several inherited manors who is dying for dinner company, Jim's "pure and upright" professional code undergoes a very sudden, very convenient revision. After all, what’s wrong with granting a client's most trivial little wishes? Years later, headlines across the empire brand the legendary Jim Hacker as an incorrigible playboy whose brilliant mind has been utterly corrupted by scandalous affairs. Protesting his innocence, the embattled detective insists he is merely being of service to his adoring clientele—right before Humphrey happily reports that the scandalous press has only brought in a flood of even more lucrative new cases.