What’s the most granular level a story can be reduced to? Félix Fénéon’s superb Novels in Three Lines offers one memorable example, and the “Six-Word Memoirs” concept that debuted in Smith Magazine in 2006 displays another path. And then there are the adventures contained in Johan Harstad’s The Red Handler, translated by David M. Smith. Here, too, are the adventures of a detective with a talent for catching people in the act of committing crimes.