London, 1920: Boston-bred Enoch Hale, working as a reporter for the Central News Syndicate, arrives on the scene shortly after a music hall escape artist is found hanging from the ceiling in his dressing room. What at first appears to be a suicide turns out to be murder -- the first of several.... What's the connecting factor ... [o]r, isn't there one? ...Covering the Hangman Murders brings him into contact with a diverse cast of witnesses ... Winston Churchill, WIlliam Butler Yeats, George Bernard Shaw, Alfred Hitchcock, and Ezra Pound. Hale ... even makes a pilgrimage to the Sussex Downs to get an opinion on the case from the great detective Sherlock Holmes. -- Cover, page 4.
