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The man is riding on a train and hears an old 

fellow get on.

The old man whispers "Death is a lonely 

business", but when he turns around to see who 

was talking, nobody is there.

When he gets off the train, he sees someone 

dead inside an old, sunken circus wagon, and he 

calls the police, where he meets Detective Elmo 

Crumley.

When he wakes up the next day, he goes to one of 

the town's old shops, and finds out that a person is 

missing!

The others tell him that he lives with the "Canary 

Lady", an old lady who used to sell birds in her 

younger days.

When he goes to visit her, she tells him that he 

just died recently.

He walks into the dead man's room, and he finds 

scratchings on one of the walls.

He investigates the scratchings and discovers some 

information about the killer!

He then goes to the police station to try to show 

his evidence to detective Elmo, but when he tries 

to tell him, he doesn't even want to listen!

So instead, he goes to visit his friend Fannie, an 

old roommate, to tell her the news, and luckily she 

listens.

The next day, he goes to detective Crumley's 

house, and he finally gets the detective to listen.

The detective says he wants proof, so they go to 

the Canary Lady's house to check out what the 

man found.

The detective doesn't believe him at first, he 

changes his mind when he sees the mysterious 

scratchings.

The next day, he goes to get a haircut and when 

he is walking to the Barber Shop, he visits a library 

that he never knew was even there.

When he finishes talking to A. L. Shrank, the 

owner, he remembers that he still has to go to Cal, 

the Barber, for his haircut.

Cal looks sad and says the victim of the murder got 

a haircut at his shop the day he was killed.

After his haircut, he goes to Crumley's house and 

discovers that he's a writer too.

He tells Crumley that he believes that Mr. Shrank 

or Cal may be killed next.

The next day, he wakes up and a delivery man is 

at his door with a piano. Cal's piano.

He rushes over to Cal's shop and the only person 

there is Cal's Landlord, who says that he left town 

earlier that morning.

He meets again with Fannie, but on the way he 

says hello to His friend Henry, who is blind, but has 

no trouble getting around.

After he leaves Fannie's house, a mysterious 

limousine pulls up to the side of the road he's on.

He is asked to get in, and he is whisked away to 

the house of Movie Star, Constance Rattigan.

He finds out that she's a good friend of Fannie and 

that she's worried because there has been weird 

things happening around Fannie's apartment.

The next day, Fannie calls him to tell him that she's 

scared because she has been seeing a man 

standing outside of her home.

He asks her to leave and come to Constance's 

house, but she refuses, telling him that she hasn't 

left in over twenty years!

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