A couple, Roger and Trish Burkle, enter the hotel searching for assistance in finding their lost daughter, Fred, whom another private detective traced to Angel Investigations.

All three storylines merge when the detectives trace the access card, not to the mayor's office, but to Richmond's main office.

All three victims escaped unharmed, after detectives traced several of the telephone calls, arrested the woman making the ransom demands and learned where the hostages were being held.

The detectives quickly traced the phone number to Mr. McKenzie's stepmother, who rented an apartment a block from the store.

A detective, working overtime, had painstakingly traced the keystone charm in the Connecticut case back to a list of lost property from my murder.

But the detectives traced Checker up a swampy little backwater bay off the New River.

Separately, detectives traced the gun used in the killing, a .25-caliber semiautomatic, following a trail that led them through Maine, Texas and the Bronx.

The private detective had finally traced me to Kansas City the day before.

The detective traced the footprints from the scene of the crime to the butler's bedroom.

Medical detectives traced the source of the infection to human cadaver pituitaries that had been ground up to extract the human growth hormone.