No Fear Or Favour

''If everyone had a perfectly clear conscience, the blackmailer would have no chance''. So begins a trial in which the unfortunate judge is himself blackmailed. Unwittingly ''picked up'' by a ''respectable-looking girl'' the judge finds himself put into an impossible situation in which an unscrupulous blackmailer threatens his career and personal life in an attempt to steer the course of a trial to an acquittal. Can Mr Justice Slaughter save himself from ruin and degradation?