Murdoch voted in advance, but Brackenreid must give priority on polling day to a corpse found stabbed outside the station, who voted and caused a racket -with mate Alexander Cuddy- as Plantagenet McCarthy. Murdoch is booby-trapped at his rented home with a gas, and finds his investigation 'subordinated to national security' by obnoxious secret agent Terrence Meyers, whose cloak and dagger games only delay and complicate things as it's all about a German weapons spy, with tricks of his own plus a twist of chance. Crabtree has been promoted to another precinct, finally proposes to his beloved Edna, but just then her young son Simon's presumed-dead father sergeant Archibald Brookes returns.
—KGF Vissers