Under a double surname, two writers have joined forces: Pierre Boileau and Thomas Narcejac. Their works should be understood not as detective stories in the usual sense, but as examples of tangled, impossible-at-first-glance situations, the reader is invited to unravel the background of—together with the main character who is lost in the maze of mysteries. This literary direction was called “a novel of tense anticipation.” The intrigue in the novel “Dolls” is built around the image of twin sisters, who drive a young man—unaccustomed to dealing with the female sex—mad.