Jack Liffey returns in the second book of the series by John Shannon.
Her name is Lori Bright. You might remember seeing her in A Weekend 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 a little. The problem is she's paying him good money to locate her missing daughter -- a case that's about to wrap Jack up in the seedy violence of the old City of Angels...