New Yorkers love a good mystery and crime novelist Jason Starr is giving the city one you can actually solve—if you’re quick enough. To celebrate the release of , the new collected trilogy he worked on alongside the late Irish writer Ken Bruen, Starr has turned the five boroughs into a noir-inspired treasure hunt, hiding free, signed copies in places that practically smell like cigarette smoke and moral ambiguity.

“I wanted to launch in a way that felt true to noir, something that wasn’t only a book promotion, but an interactive experience,” Starr told . is a trilogy of crime novels set mainly in New York City and I wanted the city to be part of the story.”

He means that literally. Starr started leaving signed and numbered copies around town, from benches to subway stations an

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