![]() ![]() He digs into the lives of the villagers: the victim's ward, a young woman now engaged to the chief suspect a local artist shunned because of her love for a German prisoner the reclusive cousins whose cottage adjoins the dead man's estate. ![]() Rutledge, fighting his malady and the tormentor in his head (who is the personification of his own doubts and guilt), doggedly goes about his investigation. In a Warwickshire village, a popular retired military officer has been murdered, and the chief suspect is, unhappily for the Inspector, a much-decorated war hero and a friend of the Prince of Wales. But a colleague, jealous of Rutledge's pre-war successes, has learned his secret and maneuvers to have him assigned to a case that promises to spell disaster no matter what the outcome. In a desperate gamble to salvage his sanity, Rutledge takes up his duties at Scotland Yard. ![]() With him almost constantly is the cynical, taunting voice of the young Scots soldier he was forced to have executed on the battlefield for refusing to fight. Now, in 1919, he is back, burdened with a heavy secret: he is still suffering from shell shock. In 1914, Ian Rutledge left a brilliant career at Scotland Yard to fight in the Great War. ![]()
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