02104cam a2200301 i 450000100090000000300080000900500170001700800410003401000170007502000310009202000270012304000280015004200080017805000250018608200160021110000270022724500520025424600180030625000190032426400470034330000230039033600260041333700280043933800270046752011310049465500290162577601480165421339704MeVbMML20240417130313.0191218s2020    nyu           000 1 eng    a  2019057808  a9781250755933q(hardcover)  z9781250755926q(ebook)  aDLCbengcDLCerdadDLC  apcc00aPR6116.A94bE54 202000a823/.922231 aPavesi, Alex,eauthor.14aThe eighth detective :ba novel /cAlex Pavesi.30a8th detective  aFirst edition. 1aNew York :bHenry Holt and Company,c2020.  a289 pages ;c25 cm  atextbtxt2rdacontent  aunmediatedbn2rdamedia  avolumebnc2rdacarrier  a"There are rules for murder mysteries. There must be a victim. A suspect. A detective. The rest is just shuffling the sequence. Expanding the permutations. Grant McAllister, a professor of mathematics, once sat down and worked them all out - calculating the different orders and possibilities of a mystery into seven perfect detective stories he quietly published. But that was thirty years ago. Now Grant lives in seclusion on a remote Mediterranean island, counting the rest of his days. Until Julia Hart, a sharp, ambitious editor knocks on his door. Julia wishes to republish his book, and together they must revisit those old stories: an author hiding from his past, and an editor, keen to understand it. But there are things in the stories that don't add up. Inconsistencies left by Grant that a sharp-eyed editor begins to suspect are more than mistakes. They may be clues, and Julia finds herself with a mystery of her own to solve. THE EIGHTH DETECTIVE is a cerebral, inventive novel with a modern twist, where nothing is what it seems, and proof that the best mysteries break all the rules"--cProvided by publisher. 7aSuspense fiction.2gsafd08iOnline version:aPavesi, Alex,tThe eighth detectivebFirst edition.dNew York : Henry Holt and Company, 2020.z9781250755926w(DLC) 2019057809