A random phone call forces writer Daniel Queen to don the mask of a private detective named Paul Auster. A certain Belik hires private detective Sinkin to spy on a man named Cherny. Fanshawe disappeared without a trace, leaving behind his young wife and child and the manuscript of the novel “Fableland.” The nameless narrator is unable to cope with the temptation to try on his role. For the first time in Russian - “The Glass City”, “Ghosts” and “The Locked Room”, which make up the “New York Trilogy” - the famous debut of the famous Paul Auster, the cornerstone of modern postmodernism with a human face, an inside-out detective story with a philosophical background, a romantic tragicomedy of masks .