A Novel of the 87th Precinct.
When failed painter and twice-failed husband Jerry Newman is found dead in his sweltering sixth-floor apartment, everyone assumes it's suicide. But Detective Steve Carella knows that suicides leave notes, and they don't turn off the air-conditioning on the hottest night of the year.
Which puts Carella on the trail of a killer, while Bert Kling's on the trail of a lovely wife he can't trust out of his sight, and somebody very nasty is on the trail of Kling . . .
