Henry Carter Hull

He's gentle, old-fashioned, and decent; nice even when he's drunk. But these qualities only earn Detective Constable "Dangerous" Davies (Peter Davison) the scorn of his fellow detectives in a small London police station. His boss tells him straight out that he's the last detective he would assign to a major crime-solving mission. Unlucky in love, accident prone, Dangerous muddles on and, with the help of his eccentric friend Mod, he proves the...

A young secretary of a multinational corporation falls to her death in London and a member of the Home Guard is shot to death in the south of England. Finding how these deaths are related and how business and politics can be deadly Foyle finds who killed these people and why.

A scheme involving missing fuel, RAF pilots, a bar, and a mobster involves Foyle's driver Sam Stuart and Foyle's son Andrew.