About the book: 1928 / Ordinarily, detective and novelist Roger Sheringham would never have been interested in the suicide of chorus girl Miss Unity Ransam. However, when he receives a "cry for help" from a country pastor trying to track down his missing daughter Janet in London, he takes on the investigation. And when three other young women are found hanging from silk stockings, Sheringham realizes that what he is investigating is in fact a series of murders..