The Cracked Earth — John Shannon

Her name is Lori Bright. You might remember seeing her in A Week in Palm Springs, lounging enticingly in the bathtub while an aging and flustered Cary Grant tries to find her a suitably revealing towel. Jack Liffey remembers, and even now he can't help but fall for her just a little. The problem is that she's paying him good money to locate her missing daughter--a case that's about to get Jack stuck between the seedy violence of the old City of Angels and the new gleaming bloodlust of today's L.A....