Nameless wasnt supposed to come into the office on Mondays he wasnt supposed to answer the phone. On this Monday, he did both. The call was from Barney Riveraonce a friend, now despisedat Great Western Insurance. Against his better judgment, Nameless agreed to meet with him. The investigation was relatively simple a multimillionaire rare books collector had reported the theft of eight volumes, worth a half million dollars. From a locked library. To which he has the only key. The books were all crime fiction and suspensea locked-room mystery about mysteries. This ordinary Monday brought a second oddball case The Henderson brothers were being stalked. Someone had dug up the ashes of their late father and poured acid over them, then destroyed the headstone the same way, and left a sign warning that this was just the beginning.
