S. is a 2013 novel written by Doug Dorst and conceived by J. J. Abrams.
The novel is unusual in its format, presented as a story within a story.
It is composed of the novel Ship of Theseus (by a fictional author),
hand-written notes filling the book's margins as a dialogue between
two college students hoping to uncover the author's mysterious identity
and the novel's secret, plus loose supplementary materials tucked in between pages.
Head First is a series of introductory instructional books to many topics,
published by O'Reilly Media. It stresses an unorthodox, visually intensive,
reader-involving combination of puzzles, jokes, nonstandard design and layout,
and an engaging, conversational style to immerse the reader in a given topic.
The Murder of Roger Ackroyd is a work of detective fiction by British writer Agatha Christie,
first published in June 1926. It is the third novel to feature Hercule Poirot as the lead
detective. Poirot retires to a village near the home of a friend, Roger Ackroyd,
to pursue a project to perfect vegetable marrows. Soon after, Ackroyd is murdered and
Poirot must come out of retirement to solve the case.
