The Hangman

The Hangman The newspaper headlines screamed: Another hanging murder at hill green second crime in two days. Who is the hangman? They told how death had stalked through the residential district of Hill Green, and within two days had carried off two prominent members of the community. The first was a man found hanging from a lamp-post; the second a young woman found hanging from the cross-beam in the roof of a barn. When found, both corpses had a hand printed small card pinned to their clothing, bearing the same pencilled message: With The Compliments Of The Hangman. The baffled local police called in Scotland Yard, and Detective-Inspector Shadgold soon realised that this was going to be one of his toughest cases...