Scamming the Birdman

A professor of neurology and an avid music box collector, Dr. Thomas Purdue investigates the theft of his friend Hugh Curtis's collection of musical snuffboxes and the mysterious death of Hugh's wife, following a trail that leads to Vincent 'the Birdman' LoPriore, and joins forces with an offbeat group of misfits and petty criminals to get the collection back. Reprint.