A private investigator's frantic search for a vicious serial killer through the streets of Baltimore is complicated by his own lustful entanglement with his beautiful employer and his ability to fend off attacks from a mortal enemy hell bent on revenge.

First published in 1999, this book brings together the findings from research projects funded by the Joseph Rowntree Foundation and the Department of the Environment, Transport and the Regions. The programme of research examined the problems faced by home owners with the collapse of the property market in the late 1980s. The book focuses on households with negative equity and uses analyzes of secondary data sets, social surveys and in-depth interviews to explore the implications of the fal...