Madman on a Drum

Seven desperate words . . . a terrified plea for help in the New York night . . . these were all Larry had to go on in this blood-chilling chase after a vanished sweetheart! Why had a sound-truck kept her date with him on Times Square? Why did the private eye from whom Larry sought help shun him as if he were a leper? How come Lois’ room—and his own—had disappeared into thin air? Who were the flat-nosed men with the stub-nosed guns? And the madman on the drum? For twenty-four frantic hours, Larry chased the answers. Under the Elevated, through the dark miles of subway tunnel, along streets uptown and downtown and across town, he feverishly hunted—and himself was hunted—in one of the most exciting, puzzling episodes in all of crime fiction . . . strange pursuit!