The Manual of Detection

By Jedediah Berry; Pete Larkin (Read by)
(Highbridge Company, Compact Disc, 9781598878707, 555pp.)

Publication Date: March 2009

Other Editions of This Title: eBook, Paperback (January 26, 2010), Hardcover (March 2009)

Categories: Mystery & Detective - General

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Selected by Indie Booksellers for the March 2009 Indie Next List
“This story of a clerk becoming an unlikely detective is the perfect novel noir, like some wonderful, early black-and-white film from France or Germany. The mystery twists and turns, and the universe grows into a beautiful web of fantasy. The Manual of Detection is the most fun circus ride I've been on in years.”
-- Justin Fetterman, The Alabama Booksmith, Birmingham, AL


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In this tightly plotted debut novel, 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.



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