Follows Private Investigator Philip M. Noir in a hunt for clues that begins when a prospective client is murdered, a case that travels from classy lounges and lowlife dives to jazz bars and the bedroom of a wealthy sex kitten.

"The O. Henry Prize Stories 2016 gathers twenty of the best short stories of the year, selected from thousands published in literary magazines. The winning stories range in setting from Japan at the outset of World War II to a remote cabin in the woods of Wyoming, and the characters that inhabit them range from a misanthropic survivor of an apocalyptic flood to a unicorn hidden in a suburban house. Whether fantastical or realistic, gothic or lyrical,...