It looked like a burglary gone wrong...
And it left a harmless old-age pensioner dead. However, burns and gashes on the man's face told a different story: Ernest Clare had been tortured.
As fear hangs heavily about the residents of Inkerman Street, retired tax inspector G. D. H. Pringle, urged on by his ever-persuasive lady friend, Mavis Bignell, reluctantly gets involved.
A savage attack on a young woman in London's Southend puts the police on the trail of a possible connection. But Pringle pursues a different direction, uncovering a dark and shocking motive for murder.
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