Dimensions
136 x 210 x 28mm
When an act of compassion misfires, autopsy surgeon Dody McCleland finds that she is not only fighting for her career, but for her life too.
A distraught scullery maid, Esther Craddock, visits Dr Dody McCleland in her surgery in an East End Women's Clinic, begging her to terminate an unwanted pregnancy. Dody gives the girl something to 'help' and when Esther is found dead - of complications following an illegal abortion - Dody's involvement in her case comes under intense scrutiny. A series of anonymous notes accusing Dody of the crime convinces the Coroner to recommend Dody be tried for murder. Meanwhile, the one man who might be able to help her, Chief Inspector Mathew Pike, is nowhere to be found.
When another woman's body is found bearing all the hallmarks of the crime that she was accused of committing, Dody suspects that a rogue doctor is on the loose. Against a background of social and political instability, German spies, exotic dancers and unscrupulous pharmacists, Dody must unmask the killer before more girls are butchered.
