Publisher's Synopsis
When actress Jessica Randal accompanied her husband to the country for a month's research, she expected to be bored, especially since her leg was in plaster. Yet within a week she learned they were renting the house of a murder victim, and that a rapist obsessed with nursery rhymes was at large. Since she might have met the man socially, Jessica regarded all her neighbours with suspicion and worse, began to wonder how well she knew her new husband. By the time Chief Inspector Webb and Sergeant Jackson unmasked the culprit, the innocent world of nursery rhymes has been contaminated for ever...
