The Black Cat Takes a Stroll: The Edgar Allan Poe Lectures

In this smart and funny homage to Edgar Allan Poe set in modern-day Tokyo, a brilliant young professor known as “The Black Cat” and his female sidekick-slash-amanuensis, a Poe-obsessed graduate student, collaborate to solve a series of armchair mysteries, drawing clues from fields as diverse as 19th-century Parisian cartography, Noh, and classical Greek drama. Winner of the 2011 Agatha Christie Award.