First Norda Allison's ex-fiancé, Mervin Selkirk, beat up her new boyfriend. Then her mailbox was flooded with anonymous clippings graphically describing what jilted men do to the women who leave them. Then suddenly Norda was under arrest, charged with Mervin's murder.

Serialized in abridged form as "The Case of the Greedy Grandpa" in The Saturday Evening Post, October 25, 1958 to December 13, 1958.