When mediocre artist and chronic alcoholic Jerry Newman is found dead in his own apartment, few doubt that it was suicide. Moreover, the cause of death is extremely clear - an excessive dose of sleeping pills. But experienced detective Steve Carella is in no hurry to close the case. As you know, suicides usually leave suicide notes and do not get up from the floor to turn off the air conditioner. Especially when it has been unbearably hot outside for a week now. The novel “Heat, Stuffiness and Greed” is being published in Russian for the first time.