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Private eye V.I have been landed by stubbornness. Warshawski in trouble at her Detroit office.  With her great aged Cycle building set-to be razed, she's turn into a store-out tenant amid frayed wiring and frightening, vacant corridors.  Then she discovers a homeless lady with three children in the cellar, and before she could save them, they disappear.  Worst of, she's been implicated in a murder--following the physique of Deirdre Messenger, a distinguished attorney's wife, appears sprawled across her desk.V.I., who'd offered with Deirdre at a women's refuge, thinks her death is connected to an incident of top-class domestic neglect so slickly hidden the authorities won't Think it.  Increasingly at odds with all the police, V.I. is blindly falling ahead following the truth.  And her route can lead to crime in the best levels.or deeply in to the forgotten channels beneath Chicago's roads, where strategies are hiding inthedark such as for instance a kid's--or V.I.'s--worst headache.