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St. Paul private eyesight Holland Taylor is back Edgar Award-winning creator David Housewright's third lively tale. Private investigator Holland Taylor has a minimal thoughts and opinions of sleazy legal professional Hunter Truman and listens reluctantly to Truman's plea to help him find the lacking Alison Emerton, whom the authorities suspect has been murdered. However when Truman takes on the tape Alison still left and shows Taylor her picture, the elusive female captures his attention. Can it be that Alison is not lifeless but has disappeared to begin life under a new individuality? If so, why? As Taylor investigates, he matches people who enjoyed her, or hated her - sometimes both. They include her secretive parents; her good-looking, furious ex-husband; a wary past lover; her very loyal women friends; and the man the police possessed once performed as the chief suspect. Taylor's inspection leads him to a rural Wisconsin town, where he matches two men quite definitely involved with Alison's life and uncovers big-money programs involving a hotel and proposed gaming casino: strategies with stakes high enough that they will cost not only fortunes but lives. As Taylor exposes the motives of the players and untangles Alison's bizarre story, events come together within an explosive finale.
