A Lesson in Murder

Detective Chief Superintendent Christopher Foyle's request for government service is disallowed and he returns to local police work in Hastings where he has assigned the driver Samantha Stewart. It is early in the war, the bombing of England has commenced, feelings are running high, and local aliens are being interned. Foyle asks Paul Milner, an injured ex-serviceman to be his assistant. Investigating the vicious murder of the German wife of the local magistrate, Foyle finds espionage and corruption.