BAD DATE. The Lost Girls of Vancouver's Low Track

Softcover. Vancouver's Downtown Eastside neighbourhood, the poorest postal code in Canada, is a ten-block compound of poverty, pain and despair in a sparkling, healthy, rich city. In the parlance of the street, this area is known as Low Track, where drug-addicted prostitutes barely sustain themselves and their habit by selling their bodies. Suspended in the despair and stench that hangs over these mean streets is the mystery of 31 Low Track prostitutes who appear to have vanished over the previous few years, without a trace. Theories abound about serial killers and murderous freighter crews, while some speculate that some of the women shook their drug habit and just walked away from the life. The author writes about this true-life mystery. Having interviewed the families of the missing women and the police involved in the case, he comes up with some possible explanations of what might have happened. There are no bodies, no eyewitnesses, and no clues. Just a void where 31 women once were, families and friends left behind, and a mystery that has the women still working Low Track watching their backs and fearing the night. Illus. + Sources. 189pp. 8vo. softcover. From the library of true-crime writer, Wilfred Gregg, with his personal b/plate. F.