'Dear Amy, This money is from your father. I have not seen him or heard from him since four months before you were born, but two weeks after you were born I received a bank check for one thousand dollars in the mail, and I have received one every month since then...' That's how Amy Denovo ended up with a quarter of a million dollars' worth of skins in her closet. But even if she offered me the whole bag, I didn't like the idea of trying to find her father...because it was beginning to look as if he had murdered her mother.