"The Palm Springs Tales: Book Two: Down Mexico Way" is the second volume of a planned trilogy. Book One is a murder mystery and black comedy and Book Two begins a year after the climactic events that ended Book One. In the first chapter Beverly Pickle who is the narrator and principal character in Book One, awakes to find a gunny sack containing a decomposing head on his patio. Book Two is populated by many of the characters from Book One but also...