November 1940. The Battle of Britain has only just ended and the horror of the Blitz is reaching its height.Two deaths in rapid succession on the Sussex Downs brings Bunch Courtney and Chief Inspector Wright together once more. What could possibly link a fatal auto accident with the corpse in a derelict shepherd’s hut? The only clue the pair have is a handwritten list of the members of a supper club that meets at London’s Café de Paris.Two of those on that list are now dead and the race is on to solve the mystery before any more end up on the mortuary slab.