The Trial by Franz Kafka Contemporary Darcy Barrett has undertaken a

Darcy Barrett has undertaken a global survey of men

For cynical twenty-three-year-old August

In some of his best known cases including 'The Speckled Band' and 'The Reigate Puzzle'

he comes from a family of wealth and privilege

secret courtship

The Trial by Franz Kafka Contemporary Darcy Barrett has undertaken aWritten in 1914 but not published until 1925, a year after Kafkas death, The Trial is the terrifying tale of Josef K., a respectable bank officer who is suddenly and inexplicably arrested and must defend himself against a charge about which he can get no information. Whether read as an existential tale, a parable, or a prophecy of the excesses of modern bureaucracy wedded to the madness of totalitarianism, The Trial has resonated with chilling truth