num_pages: 444
description: In Flanders in June 1917, a British officer and celebrated poet 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 his murder. Douglas Konig, formerly a detective with the London police, soon discovers that both the evidence and the witnesses he needs are quite literally disappearing into the mud that surrounds him.
language: English
title: The First Casualty
titlecomplete: The First Casualty
characters: Agnes Kingsley, Captain Shannon, Nurse Murray, Inspector Douglas Kingsley, Viscount Abercrombie
genres: Historical, Historical Fiction, World War I, Detective, Crime, War, Mystery, Fiction, Contemporary, Humor
ratings_count: 5969
publisher: Black Swan