I've always wanted to skin a woman.' The line was typed on a blank sheet of paper stuck in a typewriter. Next door, San Francisco police turned up one of the most gruesome sex murders in history. Not much surprises ex-police turned private eye, Martin Windrow, anymore. But this case proves it's in a class by itself, peeling back the genteel surface of suburbia to reveal the murky world where sex and violence merge into murder, where crime blends with illicit pleasures.'