Private investigator Sharon McCone receives a call from her former neighbours, the Curleys, to check on their daughter, Chelle. Sharon arranges to visit the building Chelle had been living in and rehabbing in southwest San Francisco. But there's something sinister about the space, and Sharon quickly discovers why. Lurking behind a divider screen is a ghastly art gallery: portraits and caricatures of mass murderers, long ago and recent. What, an alarmed Sharon wonders, was Chelle doing in this chamber of horrors? And where is she now?
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