Scratch on the Dark — Basil Copper

Zarah Fayne is missing. When Dr. Nathan Crisp asks Mike Faraday to trace his nymphomaniac movie-star wife, the sardonic L.A. private investigator uncovers a million-dollar Hollywood racket in pornographic films. The trail takes him from Jet Studios to Caribou Lake and, as always, bullets fly and murder will out. Mike can't make up his mind about Carol Foster, and the lovely Denise Silverman also takes his eye. And then there is Starr, the cold professional killer, out to get Faraday...