D'Agosta's first task is to visit Pendergast's great aunt Cornelia (definitely one of the more interesting supporting characters in the series) to get info on Diogenes and the family, including a few intimate tidbits about Pendergast himself (reminding us that he is the 'normal' one in his family only by comparison). It passes on the responsibility of stopping his brother Diogenes from committing the 'perfect crime' by January 28, a week away. Pendergast, has not been heard from since the events of Brimstone six weeks prior.Īssuming Pendergast dead, Constance gives D'Agosta a note Pendergast left for him. Her guardian, Special Agent Aloysius X.L. Eliot's The Waste Land to begin clawing at his face, drawing blood, and screaming, 'Get them off me.' Elsewhere, Lieutenant Vincent D'Agosta is making dinner for Captain Laura Hayward when he is summoned by Constance Greene to her home. Professor Hamilton's class sits paralyzed with horror as he stops in the middle of his lecture on T.S.
Encyclopedia of Weird Westerns by Paul Green (refe.