For Jimmy Coolidge, The Star Spangled Banner is a sacred song. Night after summer night, he sits in front of the TV set in his Palo Alto bedroom and rages, as the National Anthem is defiled by the likes of Fireman Fred from Ladder Station 10 or the Avon Lady from Orinda, who stand out there in front of the pitchers mound at Candlestick Park, botching the words and screeching the high notes. It strikes Giants Public Relations Director Charlie Stratton that the rash of untimely "incidents" involving recent Candlestick Anthem performers may not be coincidental. As the incidents become increasingly violent and life-threatening, he is alarmed enough to call in an old friend from barnstorming days, Detective Francis X. Chatterton.Follow Chatterton as he tries to get inside the head of a madman before he commits the ultimate crime.
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