Deputy Assistant Commissioner Charlie Hillian is killed on the night of his retirement party. Hillian was at one time a senior officer in Oxford and was in fact Morse's boss. He was also writing a book about his most memorable cases, including one about the unsolved death of an 8-year-old girl some 18 years ago. The suspect in that case, Frederick Redpath, was at Hillian's hous...。1943年,中国共产党领导的抗日战争进入最艰苦时期。日本帝国主义和国民党反动派对我根据地实行双重打击。为发展和巩固抗日胜利果实,反对国民党的分裂,八路军边区剧社派曹火星、丁凯、肖静雨组成三人工作队,来到京西偏僻的歌谣之乡堂上村。 在通往堂上村的山路上,曹火星一行三人化装成小贩商人急走而来。堂上村刚刚遭受鬼子的扫荡,村里空无一人,一片狼籍。见村头杏儿家的房屋仍在着火,曹火星三人匆忙投入到灭火中。。