Ace of Spades Murder

"e;My guiltiest pleasure is Harry Stephen Keeler. He may been the greatest bad writer America has ever produced. Or perhaps the worst great writer. I do not know. There are few faults you can accuse him of that he is not guilty of. But I love him."e; -- Neil GaimanIt all started with a murder 20 years earlier. A ragpicker was found in a closet, stabbed in the back with a jewelled dagger through an ace of spades! There s a reward for the solution to this old murder and Bill Chattuck, driver for MacWhorter s Motorized Circus, must get that reward and prove the legitimacy of his girl, Melody or they ll never get married! But first, there s the matter of that rare copy of Beowulf with a secret coded message in it, and the windingest road in the world, Old Twistibus, standing between Bill and happiness. It s a crazy contretemps only Harry Stephen Keeler could unravel.