The Wicked Flee

The Wicked Flee is a 1940 mystery crime novel by the British writer Anne Hocking. It was the second novel in a long-running series featuring her detective character Chief Inspector William Austen of Scotland Yard.

Adaptation
In 1957 it was adapted into the British film The Surgeon's Knife directed by Gordon Parry and starring Donald Houston, Adrienne Corri and Lyndon Brook.