Death is a lonely business. A book for reading in English

Ray Bradbury is an American science fiction writer, a classic of 20th-century literature. "Death is a lonely business" is a mystical detective novel in the noir style, creating an atmosphere of an endless dark film with an unclear ending. Rain and fog, loneliness and despair — and murders occurring one after another... The main character, a modest writer whose name is not mentioned, needs to unravel the mystery of seemingly unrelated deaths. He is assisted by the clear-minded and experienced private detective Elmo Cranly.
The unadapted text of the novel is accompanied by comments and a dictionary.