description: Flanders, 1917: A British officer is shot dead, killed not by German fire, but while recuperating from shell shock well behind the lines. A young English soldier is arrested and, although he protests his innocence, charged with murder. Previously a police detective and now imprisoned as a conscientious objector, Douglas Kingsley is sent to France in order to secure a conviction. As he conducts his investigations amidst The Third Battle of Ypres, Kingsley soon finds himself questioning the honor of saving a man from the gallows if he is only to return to a suicide battle. As the gap between legally sanctioned and illegal murder becomes evermore blurred, Kingsley quickly learns that truth is the first casualty of war.
language: English
title: The First Casualty
titlecomplete: The First Casualty
characters: Viscount Abercrombie, Agnes Kingsley, Captain Shannon, Nurse Murray, Inspector Douglas Kingsley
genres: Historical, World War I, Mystery, Humor, War, Detective, Historical Fiction, Contemporary, Fiction, Crime
ratings_count: 5969
publisher: Isis