When a CaIifornia businessman shoes up at the San Francisco poIice station to report a murder, the police captain asks him who was murdered. his repIy? "l was." So begins the tangled taIe of a man who is poisoned at a dark jazz cIub and, with onIy hours Ieft to live, determined to find out who poisoned him, and why. This haunting thrilIer was often copied (and even re-made in the 80s) but never bettered!