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Billy Argo, a boy detective from a mysterious childhood, learns that his younger sister and crime‑solving partner, Caroline, has committed suicide. Ten years later, as a thirty‑year‑old recovering from a stay at St. Vitus’ Hospital for the Mentally Ill, he finds a world in which office buildings disappear, small animals return without heads, and villains riding city buses pursue evil schemes. A weary telemarketer, Billy stumbles into the awkward beauty of a desperate pickpocket named Penny Maple and is drawn into a convoluted mystery that may reveal the greatest secret of all: the necessity of the unknown.
First publish date: August 17, 2006
Genre: Literary Fiction/Experimental Fiction
Authors: Joe Meno
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