from the back cover: "Crime of the Century" Joseph Henry Jackson, world-renowned literary critic and crime authority, chose as the topic for his last book the gruesome and puzzling slaying of a pretty high-school girl whose nude body was found in a belfry where no bell had ever hung. Mr Jackson died before he could finish this book. His good friend Lenore Glen offord, herself a famous writer on crime, took over where he left off. (Twelfth in a series of Classic Murder Trials)