Discovering how a once-ornery theater worker became a crispy corpse with a missing arm ranks on Denton Rourke's, "Things I'd love to do" list slightly below having his wisdom teeth removed with a shovel.
But when Denton is offered actual money to assist, the community college teacher by day and amateur detective by whenever it suits him agrees to investigate the scene of the crime: an aging yet historic concert venue. Surprisingly, Denton's first major case doesn't spin out of control for almost an entire afternoon.
Then a powerful talent manager insists on an overly rapid...

Denton Rourke returns for more mayhem, murder, and laughs.

When his first case fails to propel him to stardom, Denton Rourke finds himself working a dry desk job in a world he never prepared for: Corporate America.

After a well-respected senior executive's suicide starts raising questions, the company asks its wisecracking, maladjusted sleuth to aid in the search for answers. But when his investigation uncovers a potential threat to the company, bodies begin to pile up and it becomes clear that the Denton is in search of a killer.

To solve the case, Denton needs total...