Double Jeopardy Author:Bill James Scout Pethor is a small-time villain. But is he a murderer? The British justice system doesn't think so -- it acquitted Scout and his friend Matthew Gain of the race-related murder of Angela Sabat, a black American girl. But Angel's mother, a journalist on the New Yorker Magazine, doesn't agree. She comes to England to visit the scen... more »e of the crime and confront the possible perpetrators. Still, you can't be charged twice for the same crime -- can you? So there shouldn't be anything for Kerry Lake to worry about. But the post-trial inquiry, with its wide-ranging powers, suggests that policeman Vic Othen, Lake's adulterous lover, might have been involved. How come he was at the scene of the crime so soon? And why is he withholding the names of his informants?« less