Death is a lonely business. Bradbury R.

1949. Venice, California. "American slides" are dismantled for scrap metal. The cinema on the pier is empty and boarded up. In the lion's cage flooded in the canal, they find a dead body. The first of many... everyone tends to believe that there is no connection between deaths. In addition to the detective of Elmo Kramli and a strange young man who spent all day spent on the typewriter and sending his stories to the magazines “Black Mask”, “Supernatural Stories”, “Madmoiselle”.

Roman Bradbury, written more than twenty years after the “trouble is approaching”, surprised everyone. “Death is a lonely business” - this is a tribute to the “steep” detectives of R. Chandler and D. Hammet and the classic Hollywood noir.