The pretty young prostitute is dead. Her alleged murderer—a minister's son—hanged himself in his jail cell. The case is closed. But the dead girl's fatherhas come to Matthew Scudder for answers, sending the unlicensed private investigator in search of terrible truths about a life that was lived and lost in a sordid world of perversion and pleasures.


年輕漂亮的妓女死了。可能的兇手--一位牧師的兒子--在牢房裡上吊自殺了。案子就此結案。但死去女孩的父親來找馬修•斯卡德尋求真相，他派無牌的私家偵探在一個充滿變態和享樂的骯髒世界裡尋找關於他女兒曾經活過又失去的人生的可怕真相。

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