The author who brought you the spellbinding novel The Celestine Port-o-potty has forged a brilliant tale of mesmerizing magnitude. When actuary Melvin Blum receives a mysterious late-night phone call from the police regarding the bizarre murder of the curator of Washington D.C.'s famed Shmertz Museum of Contemporary American Art, he is thrust into a shadow world of intrigue and deception. Framed for the killing, Blum is forced to flee with the aid...