Private eye Harry Monument has a junk food problem - he's been found murdered in a trail of french fries. Searching for his partner's killer leads Keno Argyle to a seductive Asian beauty whose father is paving the beach at Malibu; a building inspector with a wooden leg; and a waiter who sleeps standing up. All this and more in 'the artificial city of Los Angeles' in Richard Evans' anachronistic parody of the noir genre, "A Cheap Dime Novel."

Co-billed is "The Modern Motor-Driven Woodworking Shop," the tragi-comic story of an abusive furniture maker, his troubled son, and his bald wife in Depression-era Kansas - and their guest, a traveling wig salesman whose sales technique is somewhat steamier than a freshly baked slice of American pie. A winner in Seattle's Great Zap Dod absurdist playwriting contest, with incidental music by Michael Licastro.