The Third Policeman

I might express the strangeness of this novel by saying that the extensive footnotes about a misguided thinker named de Selby, who believed, among other things, that night is caused by "accumulations of 'black air,'" are the least strange thing about it. This story of a murder in the Irish countryside, and also of a box of money, and many bicycles, and more than three policemen, and possibly more than three dimensions, is both one of the funniest and one of the most disturbing books I've read, and also one of my very favorites.