Out on the cutting edge : a Matthew Scudder mystery

"Matt Scudder returns in a tense mystery in which he remorselessly tracks downa young midwestern girl missing in the Big Apple."@en
"Scudder haunts the cold trail of a lost ingenue and finds love and death in all the wrong places in New York's Hell's Kitchen. Sequel to: When the sacred ginmill closes."
"This is a city that seduces dreamers . . . then eats their dreams. Matthew Scudder understands the futility of his search for a longtime missing Midwestern innocent who wanted to be an actress in the vast meat-grinder called New York City. But her frantic father heard that Schudder is the best'and now the ex-cop-turned-p.i. is scouring the hell called Hell's Kitchen looking for anything that might resemble a lead. And in this neighborhood of the lost, he's finding love'and death'in the worst possible places."@en
"As Matthew Scudder combs every lowlife bar in the city, searching for a naive midwestern girl who inadvertently tangled with gangsters, he finds murder and love in the most unexpected places."@en
"A Matt Scudder mystery."