The story opens when a murderer who's been dischargedfrom a hospital for the criminally insame rapes and kills a beautiful young woman in her Manhattan apartment, leaving behind clues that point to Detective Ben Tolliver as the killer. To Ben's horror, he realizes he knows the victim -- and thinks he may know the identity of the murderer as well. When he does not realize is that he himself is the target of the twisted genius he apprehended in another murder case a decade earlier.
Summary
A killer brings flowers to a woman, then rapes and murders her. The style reminds New York police officer Ben Tolliver of a killer he arrested some years earlier and whom a court ruled insane. Tolliver checks the hospital to discover the killer has been certified as cured and freed. By the author of Mental Case.