The Melting Clock

In wartime L.A., milk prices are up. Margarine and gas can t be bought. For private eye Toby Peters, shoplifting patrol at the local Ralph s Grocery has been the only steady work. Into this grind of reality comes a hefty, dubiously welcome dose of surrealism, in the person of Salvador Dali, encamped in nearby Beverly Hills. The artful madman whose professed mission is to shock the world every twenty-four hours, Dali has seen his latest publicity stunt go fatally, frighteningly amok. Drawn into a bizarre new world of mustaches without faces, crumbling stone women, and watches melting on the Victory Drugstore grill, Toby has to hunt down a treasure of three precious paintings and three priceless clocks, while wading though a growing thicket of dead bodies. Hovering over the twisted landscape is the curse of a killer even madder than Daliand more indestructible than a Sherman tank...