"The plain deduction is that Sangye resolved to silence the one man who could disclose this fearful secret of his past."
General Sangye is a man with a past but no one can make his crimes stick. After all, in a theatre of war, it can be hard to prove that murder by gunshot is not, in fact, simply the result of dangerous crossfire - even when the victim is blackmailing the commanding officer. But when Sangye has Major Reginald Heverell arrested for murder at the barracks of a West African colonial outpost, Lorne, the Commissioner of Police, sets about the dangerous task of proving that the crime was in fact committed by Heverell's superior and to bring Sangye to justice for his past crimes.
Originally published in 1935, this is a vintage "inverted murder mystery" from the golden age of crime fiction. Lewis George Robinson also wrote as George Limnelius. All of Robinson's crime novels are available from Black Heath Editions.