A Chicago PI hunts for a missing kid who fell in with the wrong crowd: "Raleigh presents a genuine good guy in the luckless Whelan" (Publishers Weekly).   An elderly woman has asked private investigator Paul Whelan to look into the disappearance of Tony Blanchard--a young man she'd taken in after his parents died. Instead, Whelan discovers a string of murders, all tied to a car-theft ring.   All the evidence suggests that Tony is dead as well, but Whelan keeps digging until he finds himself surrounded by a dangerous maze of silent witnesses, crooked cops, and people willing to kill to keep the truth from surfacing. When a friend from Whelan's past emerges--a friend Whelan thought long dead--his investigation takes a dangerous turn: one that brings him no closer to Tony, and a lot closer to his own demise.   "Raleigh's Paul Whelan series brings to mind the late Ross McDonald's Lew Archer novels . . . Read Whelan now; he won't be a secret much longer." --Booklist