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Because his new appearance, avant garde performer Zeno Gorgias hasbeen turning heads and attracting gawkers within the normally tame university city of Farberville Illinois. Zeno’s “interactive” art—featuring a naked lady relaxing beside a coffin on his entrance yard—is neither welcome by the city or punishable by law. But as regional bookseller and amateur sleuth Claire Malloy is approximately to discover, occasionally there’s a dark aspect to one’s independence of creative expression…Strange things keep happening to his oeuvre and Zeno. First, his estranged girlfriend involves city, demanding he be devoted to a mental institution.