Noir and the Nouveau Roman meet in “Office at night”, a mind-bending experimental thriller from Dean Kyte’s audiobook The Spleen of Melbourne: Prose Poetry & Fiction.

As the most popular track on The Spleen of Melbourne album, “Office at night” stands up to repeated listens. A postmodern mystery story written in Dean Kyte’s unique ‘nouvelle démeublée noire’ style, the mystery involves a game of perspectives as you, the listener, try to figure out exactly where you are in the immersive world of words and sounds the Melbourne Flâneur has ingeniously crafted for you based on one of his noirish analogue photos snapped on Melbourne’s Collins Street.

The CD single also features “The Trade”, another elliptical literary crime ficción set in the Melbourne underworld, and the trailer for The Spleen of Melbourne as bonus B-sides.

The short stories are examples of Dean Kyte’s literary crime fiction. If you’re intrigued by the notion of postmodern mysteries and experimental thrillers that flâneurially explore the underbelly of Australia’s most European city, written in the style of a French néo-polar, then the “Office at night” single serves as a good entry-level introduction to Dean Kyte’s ficciones.

And in addition to a handsome card-sleeve slip-case showcasing Dean’s noirish flâneurial street photography—every image shot on glorious Kodak film—the CD single comes with a bonus four-page sleeve booklet. Plus, the design of the physical CD doubles as a sneaky close-up iris shot of the mysterious man in the window who inspired the story!

To get a sample of what to expect, check out the video below!

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