An irrepressible fraudster known only as the Maniac is brought into Police Headquarters just as...
A Servant to Two Masters
"I get double the pay, and two suppers. Streamlined efficiency, a sort of downsizing of the...
The Master and Margarita
A classic of Stalin-era Russian literature. The devil makes a personal appearance in Moscow. His...
The Savage Detectives
One of the most dazzling Latin American novels of the twentieth century. New Year's Eve 1975,...
Tommaso and the Blind Photographer
Intrigue, blackmail and murder -- a dark satire from the great Italian humorist. Tommaso, a former...
The Case of the General’s Thumb
By the author of Death and the Penguin, this 1999 novel opens in Kiev with the puzzling death of a...
The Snack Thief
When an elderly man is stabbed to death in the lift of his apartment block and a crewman on an...
Mrs Mohr Goes Missing
Cracow, 1893. Desperate to relieve her boredom and improve her social standing, Zofia Turbotynska...
The Elegance of the Hedgehog
The Elegance of the Hedgehog is a novel by the French novelist and philosophy teacher Muriel...
The Late Mattia Pascal
Nobel Prize winner Luigi Pirandello is among the most teasing and profound of modern masters and...