About the book: 1953 / Cannon is surprised to learn from a newspaper chronicle that he is dead and his corpse was identified by the owner of the bedbug-infested hotel where the main character lived some time ago (before he became a penniless homeless person). As it turned out, some type of criminal in appearance paid the hotel owner a large sum to point out the former private detective, and he, out of greed, “framed” the first tramp he caught his eye...