Convicted killers don't often ring their local newspapers from behind
bars. Hard-nosed Canadian crime reporter Ben Ludlow took one such phone
call which plunged his life into the blood-thirsty world of multiple
murders. Soon other killers called him from behind bars. Before long he
had a murderers' hot line going. Who was out there sparking these scary
killers to call him? They themselves were evil monsters. They had each
been convicted of bludgeoning or stabbing or strangling innocent women
to death. Who could be worse than them? Ludlow discovered a mysterious
mastermind was feeding him inside information on all these crimes - and
other slayings, too. He was now on top of the greatest murder scoop of
his career. Then, just when he was about to expose all he knew,
shattering events overtook him in a blur of action. He was accused of
being a killer himself. Cops turned on him. As his life spun out of
control more shocks, out of his control, crowded in on him...