and "Tommy Skirmont, reporter on the Southern City Democrat, was caught high on the horns of a dilemma. In order to marry Tennessee Calhoun, fairest blossom of the New South, he had to have a job; and in order to retain his job he had to identify two brutally murdered corpses - one white, one black - on which the whole population of Southern City had gazed with interest but without recognition. A volume of ancient Chinese wisdom pointed the way to Tommy, and Yankee ingenuity did the rest. And while he was tagging the torsos, Skirmont tagged their murderer for good measure. and "