A Third Class Murder

England 1930. An antique dealer is found robbed and murdered in a third class train compartment on a remote Suffolk branch line. The police believe they know who the killer is, and an arrest is soon made.

A passenger on the train, the Reverend Lucian Shaw, country parson and former army chaplain, is concerned that the police have the wrong man, and begins an investigation of his own.

Before long he is drawn into a web of intrigue, deceit and murder that lurks beneath the surface of a seemingly peaceful country parish.