{"version":1,"type":"rich","provider_name":"Libsyn","provider_url":"https:\/\/www.libsyn.com","height":90,"width":600,"title":"The Queen in Blue - The Case of the Quotidian Man","description":"In this latest installment from the \u201c5th Letter from Rhombus Ticks to E.P. Blingermeyer\u201d series, detective Quiescence Prow \u2014 a rationalist legend who has debunked the paranormal for decades \u2014 stumbles into something he can\u2019t dismiss: real magic. It begins with a spitting cuckoo clock in a retro bowling alley, a snake-skinned man visible only in mirrors, and a masked woman under some unseen compulsion. Prow\u2019s methodical tests confirm the impossible. The \u201cQuotidian Man\u201d is a magical predator who uses a cursed mask to feed off his wife\u2019s despair, while keeping her powerless to prove his infidelity. Against his own rules, Prow intervenes \u2014 unmasking a victim and setting off a quiet war. Months later, he finds the ex-wife in ruin, offers her a strange form of rescue involving cash, occult cleansings, and patient listening, and helps her rebuild her life from the ground up. Along the way, coincidences begin stacking like fate itself is tipping the scales. The mask is sealed away deep underground. The Quotidian is framed just enough to keep him locked up. And Prow \u2014 still unwilling to call it magic \u2014 ensures no one else will ever suffer from it again. This is a noir-fantasy collision: part private-eye grit, part moral fable, part supernatural cold war. The case ends without glory, but with just enough justice to matter. ","author_name":"Tossing Grenades At Windmills","author_url":"http:\/\/tossinggrenadesatwindmills.libsyn.com","html":"