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This work ends with the main character picking up the phone to call the number 124-24, and the sentence, "Then who said the telephone in the house wasn't working?" Its main character carried out surveillance on theosophical societies before moving to the Bureau of Investigation to work for Fabius, where he is hired despite not having the requisite cranial surface area. Its prologue opens with a man named Garinati acting under the directions of Bona, and later in this novel, an autopsy is made impossible by the fact that Dr. Juard will not reveal the location of the body. (*) Commissioner Laurent is in charge of the investigation into the series of murders central to the action of this novel, which takes its title from the objects purchased by its main character in a store that sells drawing supplies. For 10 points, identify this work that in which the detective Wallas attempts to stop the assassination of Daniel Dupont, only to eventually commit the act himself, an example of the noveau roman written by Alain Robbe-Grillet.
This work ends with the main character picking up the phone to call the number 124-24, and the sentence, "Then who said the telephone in the house wasn't working?
The {Erasers} [or {Les Gommes}]