When the Lusitania was sunk, people went berserk in her home port of
Liverpool. Anyone or business with a German sounding name was attacked
throughout England.
Detective Inspector Harvey Marmion has been assigned to look into one
such attack in London where a tailor’s shop was burned to the ground
with the tailor inside. Marmion’s superior, Sir Edward Henry wants the
man who started the fire arrested. Marmion takes his right hand man, DS
Joe Keedy with him to begin the investigation.
At the site of the fire, they are told that the owner is dead. He had
been stabbed in the chest and the safe was wide open. Marmion is sure
that the murder and arson were planned in advance and the mob taken
advantage of to commit the murder. He is also shocked to find out that
the daughter of the shop owner had been raped at the time of the fire by
two soldiers. He plans on bringing them to justice despite them having
been shipped out to France the following day.
Marmion and Keedy travel to the war zone in Belgium, hot on the trail of
the rapists. Shortly after having brought the culprits back to
England, one of them escapes custody. He can have only one thing in
mind, and Marmion hopes to prevent that from happening. But will that
prevent the detectives from solving the other case?
Author Edward Marston has plenty of fast paced action for the two
detectives in this murder mystery and more than one case to solve. I’ve quite enjoyed the writing of
Marston in his other series and am looking forward to reading the
remaining books in this series.
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