Across five studio albums with Art Garfunkel (1964-1970) and fourteen solo albums (1965-2018), Paul Simon's music and lyrics have inspired generations of listeners. For , nineteen masters of contemporary short crime fiction wrote new stories, each inspired by one of Simon's songs: one from each of the five Simon and Garfunkel studio albums (plus a bonus second story inspired by a song from ) and one from each of the fourteen solo studio albums.