Monkey droppings - The Manual of Detection by Jedediah Berry

On today's menu: hard-boiled noir, served with heavy dollops of magical realism.

The Manual of Detectionby Jedediah Berry

Objects have memory, too. The doorknob remembers who turned it, the telephone who answered it. The gun remembers when it was last fired, and by whom. It is for the detective to learn the language of these things, so that he might hear them when they have something to say.
From chapter two of The Manual of Detection, "On Evidence."

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