She tells me that at 65 years old she had hoped to start her retirement re-watching Midsomer Murders and Poirot, the British murdermysteries she loves, but the cause is too important.
The founder of a company producing features for cable television stations, who is obsessed with film noir -- murdermysteries shot in black and white "with warped gangsters and neurotic heroes and dangerous women, shiny wet streets and big black cars with their headlights on" -- has disappeared.