The two things that conjured up that horrible night, were his run of luck at the Wheel of Fortune, & the mask...
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For Norman Price, in the midst of his own crisis, the financial crisis was a distraction signifying there were no longer any
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When tiny scraps of macabre "art" turn up alongside gruesomely displayed corpses, Detective Carson Ryder & his partner Harry Nautilus trace them to the work of Marsden Hexcamp. but Hexcamp was killed thirty years ago. His art remains sought after, though by some very strange collectors
- it was made by torturing people to death & the distilling their agony onto canvas. It seems an auction has been anounced & these connoisseurs of serial-killer memorabilia are gathering to pay millions for Hexcamp's art
- unless Carson & Harry can beat them in their quest for the anti-grail. But the truth of Hexcamp's terrifying career may be even more twisted than it first appears...