# The Case of the Imaginary Detective

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- Authors: [Karen Joy Fowler](https://www.bookquiver.com/karen-joy-fowler)
- Publisher: Penguin
- Medium: ebook
- ISBN: 978-01-4191-838-9
- Published: 2015-03-12
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: E-book

## Description

Rima Lanisell has a habit of losing things - car keys, sunglasses, lovers, family members. Following the death of Rima's father, she goes to stay with her godmother Addison, a wildly successful, albeit eccentric, mystery writer. Addison's beach house seems the place to make sense of Rima's loss, yet she is soon caught up in a mystery of her own. Who stole a small and highly valuable object from Addison's kitchen? Why is Rima corresponding with an obsessive fan, using someone else's family name? Most importantly: what exactly was the relationship between Addison and Rima's father, and why did Addison name a murderer after him in one of her novels? A funny, sad and wise literary mystery from the author of The Jane Austen Book Club .