Upon New York fell the haunting notes of the death-dirge-and those who heard it died in raving madness! For a powerful murder-musician had conquered Manhattan with his symphony of slaughter, and before this unprecedented menace the law was whipped! Only Richard Wentworth, in the Spider's cloak of night, knew how to battle this new master of the Underworld and switch off the sinister sonata that had brought terror to a great city!.