Hark!

I m a Fathead， Men!I Am the Deaf Man!Unscrambling the cryptic messages -- anagrams， Detective Carella called them -- delivered to the 87th Precinct confirmed that the master criminal who has eluded them time and again is not only alive and well， but may or may not be behind a deadly revenge shooting. For that matter， the Deaf Man may or may not be deaf. But he s getting through loud and clear with clues drawn from Shakespeare s works -- taunting hints and maddening riddles pointing to his next plan of attack. It doesn t take a literary scholar to know there s no room for misinterpretation. For when the Deaf Man talks， everybody listens...or somebody gets hurt.