Ptolemy Grey is passing his days with ghosts from his past, each distant memory taking him further from the living. But soon his life changes. After he meets seventeen year old Robyn, he discovers an unusual opportunity to rejuvenate his failing memory that gives him one last chance to make a difference in a world he recognizes he’ll soon be leaving. With Robyn to encourage him, and his mind working better than it has in years, he searches to bring justice to a situation sorely without balance - his great nephew’s murder. In The Last Days of Ptolemy Grey mystery writer Walter Mosley explores themes usually handled by the literary crowd. He offers readers a poignant look at friendship and aging, all the while weaving a tightly crafted and suspenseful mystery from front cover to back.