Dead ground in between
1942. Detective Inspector Tom Tyler is settling into his placement in Ludlow, Shropshire, a small town jammed with people sent there by the war, including Italian PoWs and evacuees. Tyler is busy enough keeping the peace and enforcing wartime regulations, but then a troubled old man goes missing, and his body is soon discovered in a secret hideout supposedly known to very few. Tyler senses that the two evacuee children who found the body are not...