Summary: The body of a brutally murdered man is found beneath a train, and the police begin their investigation with only two clues: that the victim and a young man were speaking in a distinct accent and they spoke the word “Kameda.” With no more than these scant pieces of evidence, Inspector Imanishi, one of […]
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Summary: In a lonely cabin near Taos, a girl named Jenny Ames was murdered. No one knew who she was, how she died, or who killed her. Eight years later, George Weaver moved into the cabin to recuperate after a psychological breakdown caused by overwork. Incapable of letting things rest, Weaver begins investigating the murder
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From the story collection The Angel Esmerelda by Don DeLillo Summary: An unnamed woman attends a Gerhard Richter exhibit at an unnamed art museum or gallery. She senses a man in the room. The man questions her, and their conversation spins through their response to the art, their lives, their identities, etc. They appear at
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Summary: In The Mad and The Bad, Michael Hartog obtained a fortune after the death of his brother in an accident. The fortune, however, came with Peter, Hartog’s orphaned nephew. Hartog hires Julie from an insane asylum to watch his nephew, and Hartog hires Thompson, a gunman with a serious ulcer to kill Julie and
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Summary: Darius Conn, a forger who’d murdered his wife and gotten away with it, discovers he’s missing counterfeit bills which could bring the police to his door. He must track the bills and cover his tracks, no matter the consequences. The story of a man lost in the labyrinth of his own delusions, His Name Was
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