Nominated for an Edgar award for best mystery of the year, "City of
Glass" inaugurates an intriguing "New York Trilogy" of novels that "The
Washington Post Book World" has classified as "post-existentialist
private eye... It's as if Kafka has gotten hooked on the gumshoe game
and penned his own ever-spiraling version." As a result of a strange
phone call in the middle of the night, Quinn, a writer of detective
stories, becomes enmeshed in a case more puzzling than any he might have
written. Written with hallucinatory clarity, "City of Glass" combines
dark humor with Hitchcock-like suspense.
"Ghosts" and "The Locked Room" are the next two brilliant installments
in Paul Auster's "The New York Trilogy," available in a one volume
edition.