In the twilight of a childhood full of wonder, billy argo, boy detective, is brokenhearted to find that his younger sister and crime-solving partner, caroline, has committed suicide. Ten years later, billy, age thirty, r...In the twilight of a childhood full of wonder, billy argo, boy detective, is brokenhearted to find that his younger sister and crime-solving partner, caroline, has committed suicide. Ten years later, billy, age thirty, returns from an extended stay at st vitus' hospital for the mentally ill to discover a world full of unimaginable strangeness: office buildings vanish without reason, small animals turn up without their heads, and cruel villains ride city buses to complete their evil schemes."