Nominated for an edgar award for best mystery of the year, inaugurates an intriguing of novels that has classified as "Post-existentialist private eye. It's as if kafka has gotten hooked on the gumshoe game and penned hi...Nominated for an edgar award for best mystery of the year, inaugurates an intriguing of novels that has classified as "Post-existentialist private eye. It's as if kafka has gotten hooked on the gumshoe game and penned his own ever-spiraling version." As a result of a strange phone call in the middle of the night, quinn, a writer of detective Stories, becomes enmeshed in a case more puzzling than any he might have written.