[This is] a "could happen" kind of story, something that under certain circumstances could bring people to a point in their lives that they would be dangerous to other people.
- Susan Richards Shreve A Student of Living Things
A brilliant, handsome, literary and musical genius is also a duplicitous skunk, it turns out, in the Lolita Files novel sex.lies.murder.fame. Penn Hamilton is the skunk's name, and his scheme to become rich and famous depends on a plain-looking high school dropout.