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Forget Sin City, welcome to Swiss horror master T. Ott's first full-length graphic novel, now translated into English. This is the one crime-noir fans have been waiting for! The Number 73304-23-4156-6-96-8 is full of Guilt! Desperation! Gambling! Disappearing Money! Disappearing Women! Bad Luck! and Love! When cleaning the cell of a prisoner who has just been executed, a prison guard finds a small piece of paper with a combination of numbers on it.

The numbers on the paper awake the prison guard's curiosity and he sets off in search of their meaning. Perhaps, if he can answer their riddle, he'll find a new meaning to his life as well? T. Ott's O. Henry-esque plot twists will delight fans of classic horror such as The Twilight Zone and Tales from the Crypt as well as fans of hard-boiled detective fiction by the likes of Raymond Chandler and Jim Thompson.

Fantagraphics, hardback, 144 pages, published April 2008