"A mysterious story, but not a 'mystery'—a 'murder' story, without a murder. The interest centres round the question of 'who will be murdered?' rather than 'who is the murderer?' Tavistock, an Englishman who drifts to Western Canada, becomes obsessed by an idea comparable only with the manias which torture Dostoyevsky's heroes. He is convinced that a superhuman person is alive in the world who is capable of saving humanity from its sense of guilt by seeing through evil, so that even murder becomes an innocent act. He dreams of a miracle murder—a symbol of man's regained innocence. Slowly he is led to the realization that he, himself, is this new 'saviour,' who must suffer and perhaps die..."
—from the dust jacket of the first edition published by Thomas Nelson & Sons, Toronto

Bertram Brooker (1888–1955), editor, critic, dramatist, novelist, and artist, was once one of the most remarkable figures in Canadian cultural history. He was the first Canadian painter to exhibit abstract art, and his paintings hang in every major gallery in the country. He won the first governor general’s award for fiction in 1936.

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