A missing tenant, an irate mother-in-law, and a killer hiding in a Toronto rooming house - out-of-work PI Patrick Bird is back in business.
Spring 1968: The suspicious death of a tenant from an Ossington Avenue rooming house.
The detective: Patrick Bird thought he was helping his motherin-law collect the rent from a wayward tenant, not starting an investigation.
The tenants: Jack Turner, the missing photographer, his thirdfloor darkroom demolished; Mr. Yusuf, the international student,
training to be a doctor; Danny Blinken, the taxi driver, shifty and
belligerent; and Shirley Burton, the young nurse, far from home.
But there's still one more room, on the second floor, empty and
for rent now. And Bird's investigation leads to the startling truth:
Its former tenant was James Earl Ray, the international fugitive
who assassinated Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. in Memphis, just
weeks earlier, before crossing the border to hide in Toronto.
Bird starts getting the idea that he might be in too deep.
