Annie Swinburn had killed a man - the killing was timely and well-deserved, for Francis Morton had been evil in every possible way But Annie knew that however justified her crime, only the rope and the gibblet awaited her if she remained in the slums of Hull And so she ran up river, along the wild secretive paths of the great Humber - a new and unfamiliar territory which was to lead her into a new and unfamiliar life