The Man with the Wooden Spectacles
Автор: Harry Stephen Keeler
Год издания: 0000
The trial of the man apprehended with a crimson hatbox containing a skull continues with the shenanigans of the Moffit brothers, Silas and Saul, trying to thwart the efforts of Elsa Colby, the young defense lawyer who must win her first case – or it will be her last!<P> Elsa finds herself visiting the darkest parts of Chicago in her quest to prove that when her client told the archbishop that the box contained «Wah Lee’s skull,» he didn’t know the box actually had a skull inside.<P>This classic mystery tale by webwork master Harry Stephen Keeler is every bit as confusing as it sounds – until Keeler pulls it all together!
Care of Wooden Floors
Автор: Will Wiles
Год издания:
A bold and brilliant debut from a darkly funny new voice.Oskar is a minimalist composer best known for a piece called Variations on Tram Timetables. He is married to a Californian art dealer named Laura and he lives with two cats, named after Russian composers, in an Eastern European city.But this book isn't really about Oskar. Oskar is in Los Angeles, having his marriage dismantled by lawyers. He has entrusted an old university friend with the task of looking after his cats, and taking care of his perfect, beautiful apartment.Despite the fact that Oskar has left dozens of surreally detailed notes covering every aspect of looking after the flat, things do not go well.Care of Wooden Floors is about how a tiny oversight can trip off a disastrous and farcical (fatal, even) chain of consequences. It's about a friendship between two men who don't know each other very well. It's about alienation and being alone in a foreign city. It's about the quest for perfection and the struggle against entropy. And it is, a little, about how to take care of wooden floors.