As the Great War grinds to its bloody finale, DI Hardcastle is
encumbered with a frustrating and complicated investigation...
March, 1918. The Great War is grinding slowly to its bloody finale.
Divisional Detective Inspector Ernest Hardcastle, head of the Whitehall
Division of the Metropolitan Police, is called to a body is recovered
from the Thames.
Mavis Parker, the victim's attractive widow, proves to be a good-time
girl, and to complicate matters, all the suspects seem to be known to
each other, including a South African who purports to be an actor. But
it is when Special Branch intervene that things really get
complicated....