Dead As a Doornail — Grant Michaels

Stan Kraychik - Psychologist by training, hairdresser by experience - is newly wealthy owing to an unforeseen windfall, but the indolence of wealth is beginning to pale. So he decides to spend some of his loot to buy and rehabilitate the last unreinovated brownstone in Boston's fabulously chic South End. But on the day of a freak April snowstorm during the worst winter in Boston's history, Stan discovers the murdered body of a young, attractive contractor inside his structurally unsound brownstone.