"A man climbs into Ferdinand Sponer's cab, gives the name of a hotel, and before he reaches it has been murdered: shot through the throat. And though Sponer has so far committed no crime, he is drawn into the late Jack Mortimer's life, and might not be able to escape its tangles and intrigues before it is too late..."--

The lucidly written memoir of Iris Origo, the writer of the bestselling War in Val D'Orcia.

"A classic Japanese murder mystery"--Cover.

"Essays taken from Auf riesen"--T.p. verso.

A pocket-sized existential mystery, as thought-provoking as it is thrilling

A sublimely eerie manga adaptation of classic Kafka stories, with a starkly beautiful illustration style - part of Pushkin's second series of Japanese novellas