A work that deserves to be taken seriously. the work of a man with a gift for language and a love of ideas. Fox is a writer who bears watching. -Larry McGinn CIRCUS Review The Syracuse Post Standard THE AMERICAN ONE-RING REVIVAL MINSTREL SHOW & FREE CIRCUS The Ringmaster of a failing tent show, disregarding the hectoring warnings of two talking clowns, persists in trying to make sense out of a circus that seems cursed-after his father and stepdaughter, now married, crash the proceedings. GOATSONG A hitchhiker breaks into a darkened bible-belt diner, after hours, and finds it to be haunted by an abnormally Catholic waitress. THE CASE OF THE THREE COMEDIANS Inspector Virgil Rafferty, after a disciplinary transfer to the Buffalo Public Library, stumbles into a mystery that will send him headlong into a menagerie of surgical monstrosities, plunge him into the poisonous wastes of Lake Erie and, ultimately, dump him at the brink of the terrible punchline of the Cosmic Joke. | Mystery Plays by Russell Fox, Paperback | Indigo Chapters