A Stab in the Dark

Louis Pinell, the recently apprehended "Icepick Prowler," freely admits to having slain seven young women nine years ago -- but he swears it was a copycat who killed Barbara Ettinger -- Matthew Scudder Believes him. But, the trail to Ettinger's true murderer is twisted, dark and dangerous…and even colder than the almost decade-old corpse the P.I. is determined to avenge.