Jocelyn Britton

Two Scotland Yard detectives investigate the murder of a young woman of mixed race who had been passing for white. As they interview a spate of suspects -- including the girl's white boyfriend and his disapproving parents -- the detectives wade through a stubbornly entrenched sludge of racism and bigotry.

A young girl is framed for a robbery and sent to a harsh reform school, where she becomes the target of a vicious warden.