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Amateur sleuth Cummings Flynn Wanamaker (named for Errol Flynn and E. E. Cummings because his mother liked swordplay and his father liked wordplay) attends the monthly meeting of a steampunk occult group in Chicago. There, a speaker combusts - perhaps spontaneously. Meanwhile, in rural Maine, a body is discovered in a boat. In this funny and eccentric mystery, Cummings navigates quirky clues and characters to solve these connected crimes: an ethereal gay romance novelist; a broken-down recluse who once wrote Cold War thrillers; assorted occultists with assumed names; a museum devoted to ephemera; a pagan reliquary; and fetid feta cheese.