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Manual of Detection

Auteur(s): Jedediah Berry
Narrateur(s): Pete Larkin
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 An unlikely detective, armed only with an umbrella and a singular handbook, must solve a string of crimes committed in and through people's dreams.

In an unnamed city slick with rain, Charles Unwin toils as a clerk at an imperious detective agency. His job: writing reports on cases solved by the palindromic Detective Travis Sivart. When Sivart goes missing and his supervisor is murdered, Unwin is promoted to detective, a rank for which he is woefully unprepared. His only guidance comes from his sleepy new assistant and the pithy yet profound Manual of Detection.

Unwin mounts his search for Sivart but soon faces impossible questions: Why does the mummy at the Municipal Museum have modern-day dental work? Where have all the city's alarm clocks gone? Can the man with the blond beard really read his thoughts? Meanwhile, Unwin is framed for murder, pursued by goons, and confounded by a femme fatale. His only choice: to enter the dreams of a murdered man.

©2009 Original material © 2009 Jedediah Berry. Recorded by arrangement with Jedediah Berry and Zachary Shuster Harmsworth. (P)2009 (P) 2009 HighBridge Company. Crime Fiction Fiction de genre Fiction littéraire Fiction policière Noir Roman policier Suspense Détective Rêve

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"Berry's ambitious debut reverberates with echoes of Kafka and Paul Auster." ( Publishers Weekly)
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I really enjoyed it. There were points where it was difficult to follow what was going on. Sometimes there are no transitions between what is really happening in the real world and what isn't and I think that was the point. There's a bit of fantasy or sci-fi mixed in that I didn't expect and that the plot ultimately revolves on and there isn't a lot of attention or overt detail put into it, which some people might not like but it doesn't take away from the experience.

It makes the world feel a bit more fantastical than it would otherwise be.

Dreams and Such

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Weird but compelling.
The writing was solid, the characters colorful, the story quirky but not in an annoying way. The mystery was very interesting, and I didn't really know where it was headed, which is always nice.
I listened to this one. Usually I can do other things while I listen to an audiobook, but this one demanded my full attention.
I really enjoyed it.

weird but compelling

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