"This is all part of a four-book origination story designed to illuminate the mystery behind Frank's life, who he really is and how he came to be, while, at the same time, telling the readers this grand opera about a chase through time and space by this very mortal and damaged but very smart schmuck and how he comes to...well, I don't want to give the ending away, do I?"--DerenImagine Lenny Bruce marrying Seneca, siring an hallucinatory Mickey Spillane. That's our melancholic, vegetarian detective, Frank Gould.Frank Gould, a retired professor of Humanities who has come to the detecting business more as a favor to his friends than anything--and spends more of his time finding dogs and cats than missing spouses--is confronted with a story about a lost cause that spurs his interest on several levels despite being absolutely absurd.Following up on it leads him to discover a connection with someone from his past he thought dead. Worse, a man he holds responsible for the death of his wife and child. Soon the layers begin to increase as he follows a trail laid out by an unlikely source.A detective mystery/thriller with some comic overtones; first book in a series, and the first in an intended four-book sequence
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