Hardcover, 210 pages
English language
Published 1961 by Harper & Brothers.
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Among the many crimes that were concerning George Gideon, commander of the Criminal Investigation Department at New Scotland Yard, there were two that troubled him most.
One was the brutal rape and killing of a young girl; the other a series of frightening fires that were being set in slum areas in London. One of the fires, the worst so far, had killed eight people.
Gideon and other men an the Yard suspected the firer were being set by a madman, but who he was or what his motives were they didn't know. However, they knew that if they didn't find him quickly, he would continue to set the fires and more people would be burned to death.
Besides the rapist and the pyromaniac, there were the problems of a grave containing the bodies of three women, a fraudulent stock deal, a woman who was endangering her life by keeping …
Among the many crimes that were concerning George Gideon, commander of the Criminal Investigation Department at New Scotland Yard, there were two that troubled him most.
One was the brutal rape and killing of a young girl; the other a series of frightening fires that were being set in slum areas in London. One of the fires, the worst so far, had killed eight people.
Gideon and other men an the Yard suspected the firer were being set by a madman, but who he was or what his motives were they didn't know. However, they knew that if they didn't find him quickly, he would continue to set the fires and more people would be burned to death.
Besides the rapist and the pyromaniac, there were the problems of a grave containing the bodies of three women, a fraudulent stock deal, a woman who was endangering her life by keeping mum about her husband's criminal associates, and trouble in Gideon's own family.
George Gideon is rapidly becoming one of America's favorite policemen, and this new novel is one of the best of the series that has been reporting his varied activities. It's a fine, fast, exciting book—full of suspense.