Four short stories that bring to center stage Augie Fowler, the significant sidekick in the Derringer Award-winning author's "Affairs" series built around Los Angeles newspaper columnist Neil Gulliver and his ex-wife, "Sex Queen of the Soaps" Stephanie (Stevie) Marriner. Only here it's the younger Augie of years ago, connecting to Hollywood stars and a show business that no longer exists in adventures that originally appeared in Alfred Hitchcock Mystery Magazine.