Read by Dan Butler Matthew Scudder understands the futility of his search for a longtime missing Midwestern innocent who wanted to be an actress in the vast meat-grinder called New York City. But her frantic father heard that Schudder is the best, and now the ex-cop turned private investigator is scouring the hell called Hells Kitchen looking for anything that might resemble a lead. And in this neighborhood of the lost, hes finding love--and death--in the worst possible places.,
