The Final Solution: A Story of Detection [SIGNED]

Michael Chabon

ISBN 10: 0060777109 / ISBN 13: 9780060777104

Published by Harper Perennial, New York, 2005

About this Item

This "P.S." first trade paper edition includes Michael Chabon's 131-page Sherlock Holmes novel, plus 14 pages of additional material featuring a transcript of Chabon's NPR interview about this novel. "First Harper Perennial edition" on the copyright page. Flat signed (no inscription) by Michael Chabon on its title page. This book is unread, in fine condition, as new. Binding tight and square, with no reading crease in the spine. Covers are unfaded, unmarked and unworn (and were never marred by an "Autographed Copy" store sticker.) Pages are unmarked and unworn. Not a remainder. As with all Space Age Book purchases, I will ship this book in a moisture proof zip-loc bag, padded in bubble wrap, inside a sturdy box to assure it reaches its proud new owner in the same condition as my description.

Seller Inventory # 000674

Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Final Solution: A Story of Detection [SIGNED]
• Publisher: Harper Perennial, New York
• Publication Date: 2005
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0060777109
• ISBN 13: 9780060777104
• Binding: Soft cover
• Edition: 2nd Edition
• Printing: 1st Printing
• Condition: Fine
• Weight: 0.27 pounds
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)
• Seller catalogs:
  • Suspense & Mystery Novels
  • Signed Books

About this title

Synopsis

In The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay, prose magician Michael Chabon conjured the golden age of comic books, interwining history, legend and story-telling verve. In The Final Solution, he has condensed his boundless vision to create a short, suspenseful tale of compassion and wit that re-imagines the classic 19th-century detective story.

In deep retirement in the English countryside, an 89-year old man, vaguely recollected by the locals as a once-famous detective, is more concerned with his bookkeeping than his fellow man. Into his life wanders Linus Steinman, nine years old and mute, who has escaped from Nazi Germany with his sole companion: an African grey parrot. What is the meaning of the mysterious strings of German numbers the bird spews out—a top-secret SS code? The keys to a series of Swiss bank accounts? Or do they hold a significance at once more prosaic and far more sinister?

Though the solution to this last case may be beyond even the reach of the once famed sleuth, the true story of the boy and his parrot is subtly revealed to the reader in a wrenching resolution to this brilliant homage. The Final Solution is a work from a master story-teller at the height of his powers.

About the Author

Michael Chabon is the bestselling and Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Moonglow and The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay, among many others. He lives in Berkeley, California with his wife, the novelist Ayelet Waldman, and their children.