Knock 3--1--2

""Fredric Brown tops himself again," says the Los Angeles Mirror-News of this taut, dramatic novel of one night when a desperate rapist-killer stalked a town, ten hours of panic and terror that turned the night into a nightmare. For as the net tightened around the killer more and more, people became entangled in a chain of events that ended in an explosion of maniacal savagery"-- http://www.centipedepress.com/crime/knock312.html (as viewed on February 16, 2017).