During the Korean War retreat in 1951, a small British recon group is surrounded by Chinese troops and holds out in a lonely temple atop a hill
In Londons colourful but seedy Soho of the 1950s, Michael Morgan is working mending the road He is unhappy, with little hope of finding happiness Then he meets Julia Gozzi, a conservative catholic girl making plans
Faced with two false confessions and numerous suspects after a despised civil magistrate is found shot in the local vicarage, Detective Inspector Slack reluctantly accepts help from Miss Marple