Maximo Morgan is his name. Private dicking is his game. But he has not had a case in weeks until someone cuts snippets of text from a lending-library book; some as short as single words, others as long as complete sentences. What’s afoot? * Aimless literary vandalism? * A cut-and-paste note caper? * An artfully coded message? * Some kind of practical joke? * An even more devious plot? * In the course of doping out the mystery inside an enigma wrapped in a hidden secret bound in the book, Max is led by his nose to the solution of an intriguing puzzle.