The Manualof Detection Hardback - 2009
by Berry, Jedediah
In this tightly plotted yet mind-expanding debut novel, anunlikely detective, armed only with an umbrella and a singularhandbook, must untangle a string of crimes committed in and throughpeople's dreams
In an unnamed city always slick with rain, CharlesUnwin toils as a clerk at a huge, imperious detective agency.All he knows about solving mysteries comes from the reportshe's filed for the illustrious detective Travis Sivart. When Sivartgoes missing and his supervisor turns up murdered, Unwin issuddenly promoted to detective, a rank for which he lacks boththe skills and the stomach. His only guidance comes from hisnew assistant, who would be perfect if she weren't so sleepy, andfrom the pithy yet profound Manual of Detection (think TheArt of War as told to Damon Runyon).
Unwin mounts his search for Sivart, but is soonframed for murder, pursued by goons and gunmen, andconfounded by the infamous femme fatale Cleo Greenwood.Meanwhile, strange and troubling questions proliferate: whydoes the mummy at the Municipal Museum have modern-daydental work? Where have all the city's alarm clocks gone? Whyis Unwin's copy of the manual missing Chapter 18?
When he discovers that Sivart's greatest cases including the Three Deaths of Colonel Baker and the ManWho Stole November 12th were solved incorrectly, Unwinmust enter the dreams of a murdered man and face a criminalmastermind bent on total control of a slumbering city.
The Manual of Detection will draw comparisonto every work of imaginative fiction that ever blew a reader'smind from Carlos Ruiz Zafón to Jorge Luis Borges, fromThe Big Sleep to The Yiddish Policeman's Union. But, ultimately,it defies comparison; it is a brilliantly conceived, meticulouslyrealized novel that will change what you think about howyou think.
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- Author Berry, Jedediah
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- Pages 288
- Language EN
- Publisher Penguin Press HC, The, New York
- Date 2009-02-19
- ISBN 9781594202117
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