57th Street Books
1301 E 57th St
773.684.1300
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Jedediah Berry's debut novel chronicles the labyrinthine journey of detective-agency clerk Charles Unwin as he's suddenly promoted due to the death of a superior. Unwin goes largely unnoticed in his rainy, unnamed city and at his Kafka-esque shadow-bureaucratic job, despite 20 years of loyal service — that is until detective Travis Sivart is murdered. In The Manual of Detection, Berry's hapless would-be hero moves from chronicler of Sivart's cases to private eye tasked with investigating his disappearance. Part hardboiled noir, part magical-realism fantasy, Manual deftly balances high literary elements with crackling, mystery-hound pacing.
