類型：Thriller（恐怖小說）
語別：美式英語
秋高氣爽的某天，一個女人帶著她的女兒到私家偵探奈特的紐約辦公室，希望不管花多少錢都要找到她那消失已久的老公派翠克。奈特開始從華爾街金融區下手，尋覓過程中發現一家獲利極佳的投資公司－獲利高得像作白日夢一樣。而警察在派翠克的車子後車廂發現一具屍體，但不知道是誰的屍體。派翠克到底躲到哪去了？
Award-winning original fiction for learners of English. At seven levels, from Starter to Advanced, this impressive selection of carefully graded readers offers exciting reading for every student's capabilities. One day in the fall a woman calls at the New York office of Nat Marley, licensed private investigator, to ask him to find Patrick, her missing husband. Marley's enquiries take him to the financial district of Wall Street and an investment company whose returns are too good to be true. Then the police find a body in the trunk of a car – Patrick's car. Whose is the body and where is Patrick?
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