โ Scribed by Jedediah Berry
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EDITORIAL REVIEW:
**In this tightly plotted yet mind- expanding debut novel, an unlikely detective, armed only with an umbrella and a singular handbook, must untangle a string of crimes committed in and through peopleโs dreams**
In an unnamed city always slick with rain, Charles Unwin toils as a clerk at a huge, imperious detective agency. All he knows about solving mysteries comes from the reports heโs filed for the illustrious detective Travis Sivart. When Sivart goes missing and his supervisor turns up murdered, Unwin is suddenly promoted to detective, a rank for which he lacks both the skills and the stomach. His only guidance comes from his new assistant, who would be perfect if she werenโt so sleepy, and from the pithy yet profound *Manual of Detection* (think *The Art of War* as told to Damon Runyon).
Unwin mounts his search for Sivart, but is soon framed for murder, pursued by goons and gunmen, and confounded by the infamous femme fatale Cleo Greenwood. Meanwhile, strange and troubling questions proliferate: why does the mummy at the Municipal Museum have modern- day dental work? Where have all the cityโs alarm clocks gone? Why is Unwinโs copy of the manual missing Chapter 18?
When he discovers that Sivartโs greatest casesโ including the Three Deaths of Colonel Baker and the Man Who Stole November 12thโwere solved incorrectly, Unwin must enter the dreams of a murdered man and face a criminal mastermind bent on total control of a slumbering city.
*The Manual of Detection* will draw comparison to every work of imaginative fiction that ever blew a readerโs mindโfrom Carlos Ruiz Zafรณn to Jorge Luis Borges, from *The Big Sleep* to *The Yiddish Policemanโs Union*. But, ultimately, it defies comparison; it is a brilliantly conceived, meticulously realized novel that will change what you think about how you think.
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EDITORIAL REVIEW: \*\*In this tightly plotted yet mind- expanding debut novel, an unlikely detective, armed only with an umbrella and a singular handbook, must untangle a string of crimes committed in and through peopleโs dreams\*\* In an unnamed city always slick with rain, Charles Unw
EDITORIAL REVIEW: \*\*In this tightly plotted yet mind- expanding debut novel, an unlikely detective, armed only with an umbrella and a singular handbook, must untangle a string of crimes committed in and through peopleโs dreams\*\* In an unnamed city always slick with rain, Charles
In an unnamed city always slick with rain, Charles Unwin toils as a clerk at a huge, imperious detective agency. All he knows about solving mysteries comes from the reports he's filed for the illustrious detective Travis Sivart. When Sivart goes missing and his supervisor turns up murdered, Unwin is
"This debut novel weaves the kind of mannered fantasy that might result if Wes Anderson were to adapt Kafka."--The New Yorker Reminiscent of imaginative fiction from Jorge Luis Borges to Jasper Fforde yet dazzlingly original, The Manual of Detection marks the debut of a prodigious young talent. Char
"This debut novel weaves the kind of mannered fantasy that might result if Wes Anderson were to adapt Kafka." --The New Yorker Reminiscent of imaginative fiction from Jorge Luis Borges to Jasper Fforde yet dazzlingly original, The Manual of Detection marks the debut of a prodigious young talent. Cha