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The Manual of Detection.(Brief article)(Book review)
From the classic tropes of the detective procedural, this debut novel weaves the kind of mannered fantasy that might result if Wes Anderson were to adapt Kafka. Charles Unwin, a meek detective-agency clerk, is set on the trail of a legendary adversary after the disappearance of a colleague. He's handed the rulebook of the title, but it gets him only so far; the vast bureaucratic agency and the nightmarish ...
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