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A homosexual man's murder leads Hastings to a blackmail plot. Charles Hardaway climbs the hill to his house, immediately missing the bright signals and chat of the pub and dreading the return to his lover, who's slowly dying of AIDS. But Hardaway's self-pity is interrupted with a pipe-wielding stranger, who crushes his skull before slipping away. It's nighttime in the Castro, and another homosexual man has been delivered to his grave. Homicide lieutenant Frank Hastings is enticed to write the killing off as another heinous illustration of gay-bashing, but witnesses say the killer was alone, and seemed to know the victim. Digging into Hardaway's history, Hastings finds research that he was a blackmailer who pushed one of is own targets to the breaking point. In a community where disease and hatred claim more and more lives every day, it seems one man has been done in by basic old-fashioned greed.
