Students of German literature at Brno's Masaryk University have written "Vražda v kampusu", a crime novel. This paper traces its origins in a creative writing class and outlines its inspirations. The motley collection of chapters authored by various students is organised in a lexicon-novel inspired by "Lexikon einer sentimentalen Reise zum Exporteurtreffen in Druden" by Andrease Okopenko. Individual alphabetically ordered chapters are linked with more or less loosely connected parts of the novel.