March 1944 - an RAF bomber station in the bleak East Anglian fenlands. The body of a young WAAF is discovered early one morning and Alan Blanding, schoolmaster turned adjutant, soon finds himself under suspicion of her murder, and in trying to help a young pilot accused of cowardice, Blanding puts his own life at risk in a thrilling climax to the book. This is Michael Anthony's fourth and final book.