Book description
''The gallows in my garden, people say,
Is new and neat and
adequately tall.
I tie the noose on in a knowing way
As one
that knots his necktie for a ball;
But just as all the neighbors
. . . on the wail . . .
Are drawing a long breath to shout
'Hurray!'
The strangest whim has seized me . . . After all
I
think I will not hang myself today.''
--From G. K. Chesterton's
A Ballade of Suicide
Young Donald Lawson was familiar with that poem . . . yet now his
body hung dead on a crag. Murder or suicide, Manville Moon was already
on the case, as bodyguard to Don's beautiful sister Grace. For Grace's
life was threatened, too, and to protect it Moon found himself
crossing fists and guns with hired killers, and fencing desperately
with Grace's friends, family, and fiancé, anyone of whom might have
wanted to kill her.
