An anthology published to benefit Dave Eggers' 826nyc literacy non-profit opens with an invitation to a party where more than 80 of the most talented, best-selling and recognizable names in children's and YA fiction learn that they are suspects in the murder of insufferably malodorous book editor Herman Mildew, and who must prove�n brief first-person stories�hat despite their lying natures, they are not responsible for Mildew's death.