On a quiet night in Martinsville came the soft music, mounting slowly to an eerie, penetrating pulse, compelling… calling. Heeding it, Frank Craven leaped to his death! Thus began the Suicide Plague, a ghastly epidemic set to the music of the Mad Piper of Death! Only Richard Wentworth, alias the Spider, could save the terrified city; yet he himself danced to the Piper’s weird tune — with Death his partner and suicide the prize!
