Helen and her stepfather Dirk move from Germany to Eastbourne. To please Dirk, Helen goes on a murderous rampage, killing 14 people within 3 days, taking extreme measures to satisfy him.

Helen Razor and her step-father Dirk, newly arrived by car from Germany, find lodgings in a boarding house in Eastbourne. Sharing their small room, Dirk is very needy and gets Helen to supply all his small wants. Helen's method of supplying her father's needs are crude and fundamental. She kills and robs her victims. She operates on a whim, dislike, or pure anger - there is no single rationale for her actions. Yet, however much she tries to please her father, she suffers his constant disapproval. At the end of her spree of fourteen killings spanning a weekend.—R.M