The investigator
John Sandford
Spring, 1921. Scotland Yard sends Inspector Ian Rutledge to the sea-battered village of Walmer on the coast of Essex. The lady of the house may prove his most bewildering witness yet. She claims she saw a violent murder? But there is no body, no blood. She also insists she recognized the killer: Captain Nelson. Only it could not have been Nelson because he died during the war.