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The Manual of Detection
The Manual of Detection
Author: Jedediah Berry
An unlikely detective, armed only with an umbrella and a singular handbook, must untangle a string of crimes committed in and through people's 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 he's filed for ...  more »
ISBN-13: 9781594202117
ISBN-10: 1594202117
Publication Date: 2/19/2009
Pages: 320
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Publisher: Penguin Press
Book Type: Hardcover
Other Versions: Paperback, Audio CD
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What a journey it is to read this book. It starts out obscurely, in the rain. It builds through a series of quiet encounters that leave you curious and expectant. Before you know it you find yourself immersed in a world and then like an Escher print you end up back where you started, not quite sure how you got there. I highly recommend this piece of rainy noir, this mystery that unfolds and resets with mathematical closure - it's a book that many have tried to write, I think and Berry gets it just right.
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