num_pages: 525
description: The voice belongs to a woman, but Dr. Alex  Delaware remembers a little girl. It is eleven  years since seven-years-old Melissa Dickinson dialed  a hospital help line for comfort--and found it in  therapy with Alex Delaware. Now the lovely young  heiress is desperately calling for psychologist's  help once more. Only this time it looks like  Melissa's deepest childhood nightmare is really  coming true ...  Twenty years ago, Gina Dickinson, Melissa's  mother, suffered a grisly assault that left the budding  actress irreparably scarred and emotionally  crippled. Now her acid-wielding assailant is out of  prison and back in L.A.--and Melissa is terrified  that the monster has returned to hurt Gina again.  But before Alex Delaware  can even begin to soothe his former patient's  fears, Gina, a recluse for twenty, disappears. And  now, unless Delaware turns crack detective to  uncover the truth, Gina Dickinson will be just one  more victim of a cold fury that has already spawned  madness--and murder.
language: English
title: Private Eyes
titlecomplete: Private Eyes (Alex Delaware, #6)
characters: Lieutenant Frisk, Judge Force Crater (Private Eyes), Eugene de Long, Don Ramp, Leo and Ursula Cunningham-Gabney, Karl Malden (Private Eyes), Raphael (Private Eyes), Joel Henry McCloskey, Kathy Moriarty, Sherlock Holmes (The Murder of Sherlock Holmes), Alex Delaware, Paul Theroux (Private Eyes), Bayliss (Private Eyes), Traci and Maria, Joni Mitchell (Private Eyes), Father Tim (Private Eyes), Mal Worthy, Watson (Death in the Clouds), Nancy Brown (Private Eyes), Chuck Colson (Private Eyes), Bridget McWilliams, Edward Albee (Private Eyes), Melvin Louis Findlay, Sabino Hernandez, Seth Fiacre, Walt Disney (Private Eyes), Linda Overstreet, Noel Coward (The Sanibel Sunset Detective Goes to London), Todd Nyquist, Rick Silverman, Masters and Johnson (Private Eyes), Lou Gehrig (Private Eyes), Eileen Wagner, Arthur Dickinson, Sam Spade (Little White Lies), Dirty Harry (Easy Prey), Norman Rockwell (Silent Partner), Grace Kelly (Private Eyes), Noel Drucker, Melissa Dickinson, Jacob Dutchy, Mikoksi, Gina Dickinson, Philip Marlowe (The Murder of Sherlock Holmes), Clifton Chickering, Richie Valens (Private Eyes), Mozart (Two Dollar Bill), Hugh Walpole (Private Eyes), Mary Cassatt (Private Eyes), Glenn Anger, Suzy LaFamiglia, Robin Castagna, Muhammad Ali (Private Eyes), Marlon Brando (Private Eyes), John James Audubon (Private Eyes), Geraldo (Private Eyes), James Madison Douse, Junior, Howard Hughes (Private Eyes), Alice in Wonderland (Private Eyes), Detective Bradley Lewis, Marie Antoinette (The Augean Stable), Goya (Old Black Magic), Milo Sturgis
genres: Suspense, Audiobook, Murder Mystery, Mystery, Fiction, Thriller, Crime, Psychology, Mystery Thriller, Detective
ratings_count: 10574
places: Los Angeles, California
series: Alex Delaware
publisher: Bantam