A burlesque, a morality tale, a comedy of errors, a rib-tickling farce-any of these descriptions fits The Zigzag Papers. Our hero, Armand DuBois, a sous-chef at the Grand Hotel in Zurich, Switzerland, on vacation in Zigzag, Oregon, is mistaken for the fictional Inspector François Poulet of Interpol and throws himself into solving the mystery of who is attempting to murder Wanda Fuller, postmistress (identifies as "mail person") who wrote The Book of Love about her six former husbands. All six-fearing she is writing a second book, The Zigzag Papers, exposing their deep secrets-are suspects. Wanda's identical twin sister, Rhonda, lurks in the shadows.