Back in the nineties a novella, 'The Events Concerning a Nude Fold-Out Found in a Harlequin Romance,' about jobless Plebin Cook, his daughter Jasmine, and a used bookstore owner named Martha, appeared to be the start of a series. It wasn’t.

The original story, involving circus dogs, mannikins and a serial killer, is joined by a quirky, short novel, The Events Concerning Two Stabbed Clowns in a Bloody Bathtub. The novel answers the question: What did Plebin and the gang do next?

A missing cat leads to an outrageous blackmail scheme, a sex video, a body in an out of the way cemetery, a sexy mortician, clown orgies, bathtub stabbings, and a missing child.

But Plebin, Jasmine and Martha are on the job, because they not only have a used bookstore to run, they own a private eye agency, BOOKS AND BULLETS, and they are clown deep into a twisty investigation. An investigation that soon becomes a race against time to rescue a child before she is deprived of air and a wicked vengeance is completed.