Mystery of the Dead Police Author:Phillip MacDonald There was a madman loose in the streets of London. He killed and vanished, then came back to kill again. Each time his victim was a policeman -- and each time he escaped. The only clue, which promised no relief, was that the first policeman was killed in Farnley, in Surrey of South East England. The first policeman was found dead at the front de... more »sk of his own station house. The second policeman was strangled with a handkerchief. The third policeman was almost disemboweled. The killer didn't stop there; he struck a fourth time, a fifth, a sixth. Every patrolman on the street alone at night wondered, "Will I Be Next?"
Originally published as X v. Rex (a.k.a. The Mystery of Mr. X) by Phillip MacDonald (writing as Martin Porlock) in 1933. Serialized in American newspapers as ‘Who Killed C*ck Robin Hoode?’. (Later republished as Mystery of the Dead Police by Philip MacDonald, Pocket Books #70, 1940). Republished multiple times as both X v. Rex (or X V. Rex) and Mystery of the Dead Police.« less