"I was looking for anything and nothing. When I reached the bedroom, I stopped. The knob turned easily under my hand and I jolted the door open with my knee.

Face up across the bed lay the body of a naked woman, a sun-tan stocking twisted around her neck!"

Detective Paul Pine's routine investigation for a missing girl turned out to be a violent race with death. From rooming houses to mansions: from a night club to a twilight world of women without men - the search went on. And murder followed murder as Paul Pine began to find out too much about people who didn't want their secrets spread around.