London, 1916. Crowds cheer as a great fireball drops slowly down and crashes in a field but the one person unable to watch is Simon Wilder. While he is staring up at the sky, he is stabbed to death and left in an alleyway. It will prove to be a very puzzling case for Inspector Marmion and Sergeant Keedy...
Paperback edition of the 5th novel in this series set during the First World War. A murder during a Zeppelin raid on London proves a puzzling case for Marmion and Keedy.