Kinsey tracks down the dead man's friends, three other homeless people named Felix, Dandy, and Pearl.

At the bank, she finds a safe deposit box in Dace's name containing $600,000 and a will leaving it all to her.

All three have been estranged from their father for many years and are unmoved by the news of his death, even more so when they discover they have been disinherited in favor of a stranger.

Returning home, Kinsey travels to the homeless camp where Dace lived in order to scavenge some of his stuff.

As it turns out, what he left behind provides valuable clues about not only Dace's murder, but the death of another private investigator some months before.