Jake Randolph in "The Eternal Night" Pt. 67

"Are you sure?" I asked.

"Yeah," Mason said, "a little beach between 'Frisco and San Rafael."

He was right. I remembered that tower of rocks off the coastline. Harrigan, my old Army buddy, and I went deep sea fishing up there once and had stood on that very beach.

"Well then," I said, "that puts her being in the San Francisco-Berkeley area at some point. The other items bear that out: a matchbook to a club called The Devil's Den on the wharf in San Francisco overlooking Alcatraz Island, and a business card to a photography studio in Berkeley."