1949 year. Venice, state California. "Switchbacks" are taken apart on a scrap-metal. The cinema on a pier is empty and fastened with nails. In the lion's cage flooded in a channel, find a dead body. First from many. All are inclined to consider that no connection between deaths is not present. Except a detective Эльмо Крамли and queer young bird whole days sitting after a typewriter and sending the stories in magazines the "Black mask", "Сверхъественные of history", "Mademoiselle".Roman Брэдбери, written through twenty with superfluous years after "trouble Approaches", surprised all. "Death is business lonely" is the contribution of memory to the "steep" detectives Чандлера and Д. Хэммета and classic Hollywood нуару.