Contents

PART ONE

1. Last Scene But One

2. Lovers Meeting

3. A Happy Time

4. Evening in Maida Vale

5. Enter Jacko

6. The End of Innocence

7. An Intellectual Tea-Party

8. “He’d as soon be in Prison”

9. Journey through the Underworld

10. Tragedy at Southbourne

PART TWO

11. The Morning After

12. “We’ll Get Him”

13. “I Only Want to Help”

14. The Kiss of Death

15. An Arrest in London

16. Fair Enough

17. The Second Betrayal

18. From Evidence Received

19. Daisy Consults a Solicitor

20. Trial and Verdict

21. Last Scene of All

A Note on the Author