The Boy Detective Fails

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In the twilight of a mysterious childhood full of wonder, Billy Argo, boy detective, is broken-hearted to find that his younger sister and crime-solving partner, Caroline, has committed suicide. Ten years later, Billy, age 30, returns from an extended stay at St Vitus' Hospital for the mentally ill to discover the world full of unimaginable strangeness. Billy finds the companionship of two lonely, extraordinary children and, with a nearly forgotten bravery, he falls in love and confronts the nearly impossible solution to the mystery of his sister's death.

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"Meno tackles questions of judgement and forgiveness, and his writing is beautifully evocative of the weird poetry that small, isolated American towns can emanate." - Nude Magazine"

Author Bio

Joe Meno is also the author of Hairstyles of the Damned and How the Hula Girl Sings (both available from Turnaround). He was the winner of the 2003 Nelson Algren Award for short fiction and is a professor of creative writing at Columbia College Chicago.