It’s just a number. Or is it? You can take your unlucky 13 and your heavenly seven. For some, 23 is the magic number, and for centuries, the digit’s die-hards have explored its importance in ...

Walter Sparrow leads a quiet suburban life until a novel about the number 23 takes obsessive hold of him. The tale of Detective Findling mirrors his own life with alarming precision. Searching for the ...

On his birthday, Walter Sparrow, an amiable dog-catcher, takes a call that leaves him with a dog bite and late to pick up his wife. She's browsed in a bookstore, finding a blood-red-covered novel, a ...

The psychological thriller is about a man whose life unravels after he comes into contact with an obscure book titled The Number 23. As he reads the book, he becomes increasingly convinced that it is ...