"RIVETING...COMPELLING...Silvis engages the reader from first word to last. --Los Angeles Reader P.I. Ernest DeWalt snooped on two-timing spouses for twenty years until a hail of bullets knocked him out of the game. Whoever heard of a sleuth with bum kidneys? Denied such staples of gumshoe life as booze, salty food, and sex, Ernest DeWalt winds up teaching literature courses in a nearly comatose college town. It's a life that the reclusive DeWalt...