HANGMAN'S CHOICE

Murder in archaeological museum circles. Peck Mooney returns from the war to Los Angeles and his old calling only to be immediately implicated in the killing of a professional ex-enemy. He wangles his way out of police apprehension, and as other deaths occur, travels from the mountains to the desert on the track of the murderer and, after a thorough roughing up, ties in an old killing with the current crop. Enduring.