Alastair MacIntyre

During a charity football match between Arsenal and touring amateur side Trojans, the Trojan's new star player collapses and dies. Inspector Slade of Scotland Yard is called in and declares it was murder. It takes all his ingenuity and another death before the motive is discovered and the killer revealed.

During the First World War, a number of captured British officers attempt to escape a prisoner-of-war camp.