The New York Trilogy is a brilliant debut by the renowned Paul Auster, author of the novels 4321 and Brooklyn Follies.

Glass City, Ghosts, and The Locked Room form the cornerstone of contemporary postmodernism with a human face, an inverted detective story with a philosophical undercurrent, a romantic tragicomedy of masks.

A chance phone call forces writer Daniel Quinn to don the mask of a private detective named Paul Auster. A certain Belik hires private detective Sinkin to spy on a man named Czerny. Fanshawe has disappeared without a trace, leaving behind a young wife with a child and the manuscript of the novel Neverland. The nameless narrator is unable to resist the temptation to try on his role.