The Lonely Crowd

P.C. George Dixon is a long-serving traditional copper who is due to retire shortly. He takes a new recruit under his aegis and introduces him to the easy-going night beat. Dixon is a classic ordinary hero but also anachronistic, unprepared and unable to answer the violence of the 1950s.

A routine investigation of a shocking murder takes a bizarre twist when the killer contacts the reporter and appoints him his personal spokesman. As the killer's calls and clues increase, the reporter is lured into a deadly trap.

A crooked politician finds himself being accused of murder by a gangster from whom he refused help during a re-election campaign.

A man is murdered, apparently by one of a group of soldiers just out of the army. But which one? And why?