by Ben Elton · Black Swan · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780552771306
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«The First Casualty» is the historical mystery novel by Ben Elton, published by Black Swan in paperback (419 pages, in English).
In Flanders, June 1917, a British officer and poet is found shot dead far from the front, and a young soldier is accused. London detective Douglas Kingsley, a conscientious objector, is sent to France to ensure conviction. Amid the mud of Ypres, he discovers that evidence and witnesses are disappearing.
The First Casualty is Ben Elton's tenth novel, published in 2006.
For readers of historical and mystery fiction, with a war plot set in World War I.
Benjamin Charles Elton is a British comedian and writer. He has written and produced for television, radio, films, novels, theatre and musicals, and has performed as a stand-up comedian and on screen. One of the major figures in the alternative comedy movement of the 1980s, he used a style of left-wing political satire in his early stand-up comedy.
