Its 1947 and pulp magazines are still selling on newsstands. Pentecost and Parker are approached by Holly Quick, a woman who writes stories for the pulp magazines under a variety of pseudonyms. Quick claims that three murders have been committed, based on stories she wrote.

Will Parker and Lillian Pentecost take the case and discover a trail that leads to the Black Museum Club, a group of rich and powerful people obsessed with murder and those who commit it.

The search for the psychopath who bases murders on Holly Quick’s stories is tangled up in the world of art collectors, publications, and the staging of elaborate murders. GRADE: B