: It was adapted by Simon Stephens into a celebrated play . This version premiered at London’s National Theatre in 2012 and won the Tony Award for Best Play in 2015.

is primarily a mystery novel . Published in 2003 by Mark Haddon, it is written from the first-person perspective of 15-year-old Christopher Boone.

: The theatrical version specifically uses a "play-within-a-play" structure where Christopher’s teacher, Siobhan, helps him turn his book into a performance.

The work is also highly recognized in several other "pieces" or forms:

The title itself is a reference to a specific "piece" of dialogue from the Sherlock Holmes short story by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. The Narrative Power of the Visual in Multimodal Fiction