A satire of the high-end audio business as a parody/pastiche of the Philo Vance mystery novels by S.S. Van Dine, this story was originally published in a prominent audiophile "underground" magazine in 1982.

Former Managing Editor of Futures Mystery Anthology Magazine (www.fmam.biz) and First Senior Editor of Mysterical-E (www.mystericale.com/), Barry Ergang's fiction, poetry and non-fiction have appeared in numerous publications, print and electronic. He is a winner of a Derringer Award from the Short Mystery Fiction Society for the best flash fiction story of 2006.