Instrument of Slaughter - Marston Edward
Instrument of Slaughter - Marston Edward January 1916. Eligible young men who have not yet signed up to fight are despised as 'conchies' and 'shirkers', subjected to hatred and verbal abuse. Britain…
Specifikacia Instrument of Slaughter - Marston Edward
Instrument of Slaughter - Marston Edward
January 1916. Eligible young men who have not yet signed up to fight are despised as 'conchies' and 'shirkers', subjected to hatred and verbal abuse. Britain is on the brink of enforcing conscription.
When Cyril is brutally bludgeoned to death, Scotland Yard detectives Inspector Marmion and Sergeant Keedy are assigned to the case. Cyril Ablatt, leader of Shoreditch's group of conscientious objectors, makes a rousing speech at a meeting of the No-Conscription Fellowship, refusing to be 'an instrument of slaughter in a khaki uniform'. As the pair build up a portrait of Cyril, they unearth an intriguing private life behind the man's saintly facade.
It soon becomes clear there are plenty of suspicious characters with motives for the killing. Meanwhile, public sympathy is lukewarm. Some people even claim that a conchie deserves to die if he won't fight for King and Country.
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