Ever since Chicago ex-cop Kubiak opted for early retirement from a quiet career in Latent Prints, he has been finding himself reluctantly embroiled in mysteries that inevitably bring him back to where he started: into confrontation with the same Chicago Police Department of which he was once a member. This time, third-rate burglar Baumgarten wants to hire Kubiak to investigate a suspicious suicide that occurred upstate, which Baumgarten claims was...