Scarecrow — Eaton K. Goldthwaite

A Navy vet thought to be dead approaches a plastic surgeon to be 'remade', planning to take his place as heir to a textile mill. Henry Heath, plant manager of the mill, is plotting to take control of the company's stock shares, but playboy Ford Sheppard discovers the scheme and attempts to blackmail him. Then two murders occur within hours of one another - one victim is Ford, the other an artists' model and Heath's mistress. Who is to blame, and how is the strange disfigured man known as the scarecrow involved?