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**[This is the Audiobook CASSETTE Library Edition in vinyl case.]** Jonathan Hoag has a curious problem. Every evening, he finds a mysterious reddish substance under his fingernails, with no memory of how it got there. Jonathan hires the husband-and-wife detective team of Ted and Cynthia Randall to follow him during the day and find out. But Ted and Cynthia find themselves instantly out of their depth. Jonathan leaves no fingerprints. His few memories about his profession turn out to be false. Even stranger, Ted and Cynthia's own memories of what happens during their investigation do not match. There is a thirteenth floor to Jonathan's building that does not exist, there are mysterious and threatening beings living inside mirrors, and all of reality is not what they thought it was. Part supernatural thriller, part noir detective story, Heinlein's trip down the rabbit hole leads where you never expected. ### Review **Praise for Robert A. Heinlein:** ''One of the grand masters of science fiction.'' --*Wall Street Journal* ''The most influential science fiction writer of all time!'' --*Locus* ### About the Author Robert Anson Heinlein was born in Missouri in 1907, and was raised there. He graduated from the U.S. Naval Academy in 1929, but was forced by illness to retire from the Navy in 1934. He settled in California and over the next five years held a variety of jobs while doing post-graduate work in mathematics and physics at the University of California. In 1939 he sold his first science fiction story to **Astounding** magazine and soon devoted himself to the genre. He was a four-time winner of the Hugo Award for his novels **Stranger in a Strange Land** (1961), **Starship Troopers** (1959), **Double Star** (1956), and **The Moon is a Harsh Mistress** (1966). His **Future History** series, incorporating both short stories and novels, was first mapped out in 1941. The series charts the social, political, and technological changes shaping human society from the present through several centuries into the future. Robert A. Heinlein's books were among the first works of science fiction to reach bestseller status in both hardcover and paperback. he continued to work into his eighties, and his work never ceased to amaze, to entertain, and to generate controversy. By the time hed died, in 1988, it was evident that he was one of the formative talents of science fiction: a writer whose unique vision, unflagging energy, and persistence, over the course of five decades, made a great impact on the American mind. One of the most extraordinary novels ever! The Unpleasant Profession of Jonathan Hoag - science fiction? Detective novel? Fantasy? All of these - and more. From the eye-popping opening, Jonathan Hoag will hold you utterly in enthralled straight through one astonishment after another - until its appalling and unforgettable climax. Contents: The Unpleasant Profession of Jonathan Hoag (1942) The Man Who Traveled in Elephants (1957) "-All You Zombies-" (1959) They (1941) Our Fair City (1949) "-And He Built a Crooked House-" (1941)