Crimen en el siglo XXI

# Catalog Description

Crime in the 21st Century by Curtis Garland is a science fiction mystery combining detective noir with time-travel narrative. Set primarily in 1976 London, the story opens when a mysterious visitor named Sydney Warren arrives at the office of Stewart Lane, a renowned private investigator. Warren reveals he has traveled fifty years backward in time from 2026 to engage Lane's services investigating a murder that has not yet occurred—or rather, that exists simultaneously in multiple temporal dimensions. Warren, a government scientist from Connecticut born in 1996, carries an indestructible futuristic credential. He seeks Lane's help solving the brutal, ritualistic murder of his companion: the victim was dismembered and scattered with cryptic riddles accompanying each piece. In Warren's dystopian future, police ignore non-political crimes. Lane, intrigued despite the impossibility, accepts the case, promised a valuable artifact in exchange. The narrative explores temporal paradox and the ethics of investigating crimes across decades.