Print of Death

There is a wages snatch by someone dressed up as a policeman. It leaves two people shot dead. Some days later a director of a factory is shot dead in his car and money stolen from the case he had.

Fingerprint evidence points to an armed robber called Joseph Shelton. He has just been released from Dartmoor prison and seems to back to his old tricks again.

Only no one has seen Shelton. Docks and airports are on the lookout for Shelton but it seems he managed to do a robbery in Tangiers as well.

Superintendent Reynolds helped by a visiting American policeman called Kovacs have a hunch after a corpse is found with his head and hands removed. What if Shelton is dead and someone is planting his fingerprint at these robberies.

A rather sinister and macabre instalment of Scotland Yard. It goes at a brisk pace. There is a chase scene across the bombed out houses leading to a train yard which is very much of its era.