In 1968, Don Freeman wrote a children’s story about a department-store-dwelling toy bear named Corduroy, who wears green overalls missing a button and is finally taken home by a little girl undeterred by this damage. But what happened to Corduroy when he “grew up”? Was he added to a Death List, grabbed in the middle of the night by a wolf in a red pickup, and carted off to the woods for disposal? Such is the fate of doomed stuffed animals in Mollisan Town, the setting for the decidedly adult noir novel Amberville, Swedish writer Tim Davys’s delightful debut. Davys’s Eric Bear has little in common with his wide-wale predecessor. He has been ordered by Mob boss Nicholas Dove, for whom he worked in an earlier, seedier life, to find the legendary Death List and remove Dove’s name from it. If Eric fails, his wife,
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