Enter the Peerless

By Kyle Winkler

Elpenor, a newly minted private investigator, finds his first case on Craigslist: twenty-nine people have entered an abandoned trailer in rural Indiana, and none of them have left. Unable to open the trailer's doors or windows, Elpenor enlists two local accomplices, a knife grinder (Don the Knife) and a janitor (Hugh Gardener). When they finally gain access, they fall into a pocket universe ruled by a godlike being called Fiascoal.

Refugees of this world-a depopulated and exact copy of our world-congregate around a web of communities in St. Louis. Elpenor attempts to find the missing people but is instead forced to become the new host of Fiascoal as a communal ritual. His search for the missing in the netherworld and the needs of the hungry, petulant god conflict as Don the Knife raises a cult of personality, community leaders abuse their authority, and Elpenor must decide whether to save the few over the many. That is, if he can find a way out of the metaphysical prison he's broken into. Told in a charged high-rhetorical, hard-boiled style, Enter the Peerless is a detective novel for the paranoiacs and heartsick rejects who know an angel in the dirt when they see one.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0F4PTSNKD
• ISBN13: 9798987574355
• Release Date: July 2025
• Publisher: From Beyond Press LLC
• Length: 258 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.3" x 8.0"