The spiked boy

the long version

"Dick Palmer and Will Snell are great friends, both former highwaymen who were subsequently exonerated. However, they become fugitives from the law again when members of a mysterious gang of murderers and kidnappers use their names to frame them. Then when the gang kidnap Palmer's wife the two friends are plunged into a deadly struggle to rescue her. But they are up against an evil and secret organization - and the sadistic Simon Pendexter, who swings a 'spiked boy' ..."--Publisher description.