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In the summer of 1950 Alistair Basham is invited to teach a Criminology course associated with the Sociology Department at Princeton University. While there  he first becomes interested in a homicide that took place in Atlantic City, new Jersey. As the killings continue he notices that each victim is a young, male adolescent in their teens. He also learns that each victim is found with bare feet.

     After being interviewed by the Press on his arrival Basham is contacted later by a Detective Sergeant from the Atlantic City Police Department and asked for his expertise in constructing a personality profile of the killer.