Whipping Boys

As Miss Maggs made her way nervously home, a clock stuck one, the town''s lights were switched off and footsteps sounded behind her. She broke into a desperate run. Later the doctor pronounced that she had literally died of fright.

In a provincial town, who was there to suspect but the rowdy gang led by Nick Salter? But Nick''s young wife swore to an alibi for him and so Sergeant Brent - a trifle e...