After the events of Dead Clown Blues, Carnegie Fitch is without a workplace and without steady work.  Now he spends his days gulping down coffee from a diner he now considers home base.  Fitch’s dry spell ends when he’s hired to look into a shady street corner snake oil salesman promising miracle cures in exchange…

Private investigator Carnegie Fitch is approached by a life insurance company to look into one of their claimants.  They’re refusing to go back to work citing long-term disability but something about the story doesn’t seem to add up given their past behaviour.  While working the case, Fitch hears of an old friend who passed away.…