Henry Carter Hull

Nameless had told Mitchell Krochek that he'd do whatever he could to find his missing wife, Janice. She'd run away before-propelled by a gambling fever that grew ever higher-and Mitch had always taken her back. This time, when Nameless, his partner Tamara, and the agency's chief operative Jake Runyon finally found her in a sleazy San Francisco hotel, she demanded a divorce. A few days later, a beaten and bloody Janice stumbled into the agency begging...

A private investigator's darker suspicions are aroused when recently widowed Sheila Hunter refuses to make a claim for the fifty thousand dollars due her from her husband's death.

Detective Nameless takes on a new case when the police pass on a seventy-year-old woman's problem, but after his efforts to determine who is manipulating the woman reveals ugly aspects of family, Nameless learns that his own adopted daughter has a troubling secret.