He called himself Alvin Limardo, and the job he had for Kinsey was cut-and-dried: locate a kid who'd done him a favor and pass on a check for $25,000. It was only later, after he'd stiffed her for her retainer, that Kinsey found out his name was Daggett. John Daggett. Ex-con. Inveterate liar. Chronic drunk. And dead. The cops called it an accident--death by drowning. Kinsey wasn't so sure. Pulled into the detritus of a dead man's life, Kinsey soon...

Traditional Chinese edition of M is for Malice, a PI Kinsey Millhone mystery. A industrial tycoon has died. He has four sons, one of them, a drug addict and a bum, has been missing for years. Millhone was hired to track him down.