What was the connection between a series of savage assaults in a pea-soup London fog... a strangled girl in a secluded park.... a seemingly senseless slaying on a deserted highway.. a crackpot anti-sex protest movement... and a queen's ransom in stolen jewels? There was just one way for Commander George Gideon of Scotland Yard to find the maddeningly elu7sive answer: Bideon had to put his life on the line in the most dangerous gamble of his career.