The first victim was discovered with a bite on her neck. The\npolice traced the DNA to the girl’s boyfriend, but the tabloids had\nalready dubbed the murderer “The Rottweiler,” and the name\nstuck.

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The latest body was found near Inez Ferry’s shop in Marylebone.\nSomeone spotted a figure fleeing into the shadows, but couldn’t say\neven if it was a man or woman. The only other clues are the\nmurderer’s penchant for strangling his prey, and then removing a\nsmall token — a necklace, a lighter.

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To make ends meet, widowed Inez Ferry takes in tenants above her\nantique store. The unpredictable and obsessive acts of the serial\nmurderer begin to disturb the lives of the heterogeneous little\ncommunity of lodgers, especially when suspicion grows that one of\nthem might be “The Rottweiler.”

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From the Paperback edition.

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