Who is Claire Gravesend? So wonders P.I. Lee Crowe when he finds her dead on top of a Rolls Royce, in San Francisco's most dangerous neighborhood. Claire's wealthy mother, Olivia, knows her daughter did not kill herself. In this Edgar Award finalist, Olivia hires Crowe, who gets more than he bargained for. When Crowe visits Claire's Boston townhouse, he has to fend off an armed intruder, but in her secret San Francisco pied-?-terre, he finds Claire asleep—and she's alive.