The Manual of Detection by Jedediah Berry is a decent book with an interesting concept. The literary world is littered with genius detectives, but what about their clerks. The clerks write up the cases and organizes the notes so the detective is free to solve the case. But what happens when the clerk assigned to the greatest detective in the world is promoted to detective and finds out that all the cases were solved incorrectly. And does a mysterious missing chapter in The Manual of Detection (the book of the same name inside the novel) provide any clues on how to solve the mystery?

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