CAUSES OF THE FIFTH KIND

Quincy Rex, Private Detective Extraordinaire, is a  woman detective working in Oakland, California who shares many of the unusual talents and unique interests of the fictional detective Sherlock Holmes, except that her sidekick, Tobias Jones, unlike Dr. Watson, is a openly gay male polymath genius and her obsession with a mysterious death, is transformative, bringing her personally closer to Truth, Beauty and Love of  all kinds.

All  this author can say about the origin of this story is that like the warrior goddess Athena, born from the forehead of Zeus, Quincy Rex emerged when the author, recovering from a high fever, woke up to say, ”A body falling from the sky landed on the last car of the BART train as it left MacArthur Station.”