The River Sings at Night is a romping, stomping magical mystery triparound the world withDetroit private eye Joe Mink as your clueless guide. It seems a lot of people are recruiting Mink to find aHoudini death mask ring, chief among them the Global Emperor who hopes to use the ring to bring on the KaliYuga and reboot life on planet earth. Mink's trail takes him from Detroit to Nepal and into the Himals, across oceans on a tramp steamer to a temple icomplex in New Orleans before returning home just in time for the world's end.