Dick Butterknife returns with another hard-boiled adventure in the grimy, corrupt city of Restrock. The trilby-wearing detective is on the hunt for a serial killer who stages their victims as mutilated crows. Butterknife must also protect the key witness to the latest murder, a young woman and heiress to one of Restrock's monied banking families. Will Butterknife manage to escape the traps laid by the killer? Will he keep the prime witness from meeting an untimely end? Read on as Butterknife fights a new deadly foe that threatens his very sanity and leads him down the darkest corridors of humanity.