A decade has now passed since the Greenwich murders which launched the career of young John Coffin as a policeman. Sergeant now, he has just bought a house in Mouncy Street in South East London, and with it, it appears, a body - in fact, more than one body... Coffin"s investigation into the case puts him in contact with the lively local ragtrade, but in the heady atmosphere of the Swinging Sixties no-one could be prepared for the shocking climax to the story of the murders in Mouncy Street...