Unbound from stiff-upper-lip stagnation by sudden widowhood, Adelaide Simcoe has yielded to her creative impulses Ñ and the pull of the volatile avant-garde fugu gallery. But when a performance art piece goes horribly wrong at the opening of Adelaide's first group show, she sets out to find who hated the gallery's mercurial co-founder enough to engineer such a horrible death.

Greg Kramer is a director, actor, and writer. His two previous novels published by The Riverbank Press are The Pursemonger of Fugu and Couchwarmer. Hogtown Bonbons, his bi-weekly fiction column in Toronto's Xtra magazine, was published as a book in 2000. He lives in Montreal.

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"An entertaining marriage of classic whodunnit and a spoof of world-class urban pretentiousness."
 

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"Kramer's eccentric ensemble of characters and his amphetamine-driven style steal the show... It's not often we get to see alternative art culture portrayed from the inside with such comfortable authority and easy humour."

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"Ten Little Indians meets Valley of the Dolls."

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