Do Detectives Think?
Overview
An escaped convict is out to kill the judge who sentenced him. Two inept detectives are hired to guard the judge.
An escaped convict is out to kill the judge who sentenced him. Two inept detectives are hired to guard the judge.
In Victorian era London, the inhabitants of a family home with rented rooms upstairs fear the new lodger is Jack the Ripper.
The story is set in the British province of New York during the French and Indian War, and concerns—in part—a Huron massacre (with passive French acquiescence) of between 500 to 1,500 Anglo-American troops, who had honorably surrendered at Fort William Henry, plus some women and servants; the kidnapping of two sisters, daughters of the British commander; and their rescue by the last Mohicans.