Laura Principal, Private Investigator, is having the time of her life. Her business and her relationship with her lover Sonny are both flourishing. Then, out of the blue, Laura hears from the girl with whom she shared her adolescence in Bristol. She hasn't heard from Claire for many years and Laura's pursuit of a lost photograph of her, leads her to another lost girl. Delivering a contract to the home of a client, Laura leaves it with a Filipino girl. 24 hours later the girl has disappeared without trace. Laurasenquirires take her from the House of Commons to a middle Eastern Embassy, from Kensington to Earl's Court, from a lovely garden in Kent to a crisis centre in Notting Hill Gate and then back to Cambridge for yet another investigation. Along the way Laura uncovers a trail of injustice, commercial exploitation and neglect. In getting to the truth, she learns 1 or 2 things about herself....
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rincipal rings the bell at theatrical producer Thomas Butler's London mansion, a young maid opens the door. And suddenly, Laura is plunged into a mystery whose depths she fears to plumb.
The maid asks Laura to help her find some missing money, but overnight she disappears. Neighbors say she was abducted; the Butlers insist no such person ever existed. But beneath the vicious underpinnings of affluence--in clubs, country houses, and charming mews--Laura uncovers the unbelievable truth. Proving it, though, could be fatal.
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"A CEREBRAL MYSTERY THAT CHALLENGES AND ENTERTAINS . . . Michelle Spring makes her heroine come alive and . . . has the audience rooting for her every step of the way."
--The Midwest Book Review
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- PublisherOrion Books
- Publication date1998
- ISBN 10 0752825763
- ISBN 13 9780752825762
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages288
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