Todd, Charles

Ian Rutledge returns to his job at Scotland Yard after five years on the battlefield, keeping secret the fact that he is still suffering from shell shock, and almost immediately is sent to investigate the case of a murdered military officer in which the chief suspect is a much-decorated war hero.

Scotland Yard Inspector Ian Rutledge is called in to investigate two murders that don't seem to be connected. When a third murder and then a fouth occur, Ian remembers something he witnessed in the war that might give him the key to finding the killer, but it will bring back an episode that Ian has been trying to forget.

Scotland Yard investigator Ian Rutledge is called in to investigate a small-town murder, but the case takes a bizarre twist when he realizes the murder is tied to one of the greatest disasters of all time.

Scotland Yard inspector Ian Rutledge investigates the mysterious death of a man in an English village and soon begins to tie the murder to a missing man who worked on a secret mission during World War I and whom the British War Office wants found.

In the spring of 1918, the Spanish Flu epidemic spreads even as World War I is ending. Nurse Bess Crawford has her hands full with war wounded and now, dead bodies. When Bess discovers a murdered man among the deceased flu victims, she knows she needs to report the news. But before she can, she also becomes ill with the flu. By the time she recovers, the murdered body has been buried and the only other person who saw it has hanged himself. Or did he?.