The Last Chance

Alan Burmister leaves Devon on a secret gunrunning expedition immediately after his engagement to Mary Perrin is announced he returns at Christmas to find himself accused of the murder of Ivor Connel a moneylender Marys father had always hoped that his daughter would marry John Worrall a rising barrister Worrall is briefed for the defence but when he loses the case and Alan is condemned to penal servitude for life no one but the judge realises that he has not made use of the best piece of defence evidence