Someone has the audacity to commit a murder in Morry Twych's porno theater, and Morry takes it as a personal affront, hiring Ed Steadman and Mercy Investigations to find out what happened. Meanwhile, Mercy Torcher and her partner Jack Nowan are retained by Joel and Dorothea Rose of Sea Cliff to try to find out who stole their invaluable art collection, get it back, and return it to them. Already stolen once by the Nazis, and finally recovered after great efforts, now it has happened again, right here in San Francisco. The Mercy Investigations crew teams up with Lieutenant "Ant" Antonelli of...

The question: How many universal human cultural activities have been around since the Stone Age? I came up with tool-making and tool use; story-telling, music, musical instruments, dance, song, and poetry; religion; ceremonies for birth, puberty, marriage, death, burial. Maybe you can think of a few more, but there aren't many. All of these activities, which began in the Stone Age, except poetry, have been written about and explored thoroughly. The entire book is illustrated with drawings and photographs. The first half of ARCHEOPOETICS is an introduction to, and a varied explanation of, this...