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Twenty-one stories that move along the thin line between everyday comedy and the darkness people can inflict on one another, many of them built around texts of every kind: crosswords, newspaper cuttings, film scripts. A woman with no interest in politics buys the same paper each day because it carries messages addressed to her alone; a professor misdials and reaches a discreet club that fulfils wishes; a photograph brings back a murder buried with its victim long ago; an elderly woman falls in love with a film star and puts her life in danger. In the most ordinary moment, each of these people turns detective, investigating the mystery of their own life.

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About the book

Form

Short stories

Length

272 pages in the original

Genres

Crime (assigned by AI)

First published

2010 by Obsidian

Author's age

47 when first published

ISBN

9789547692312 (original)