Boyle was a Boston police officer before the war. Thanks to having an uncle named Dwight D. Eisenhower, he escapes combat but instead helps solve military murders. One can't have people killing other people during a war, after all.
This time Lt. Boyle's strings are pulled by a wealthy Boston man named Joe Kennedy, who wants him assigned to clear the name of his son, John, a suspect in a Navy murder case. And so Boyle gets sent to the Pacific Theater to try to solve a case that may or may not implicate Kennedy, a man with whom he has had unpleasant encounters in the past.
Kennedy is portrayed as a spoiled rich kid who uses others to advance himself. Boyle has been used by him in the past, and he resents being used again. Yet Kennedy is also shown to have noble, even heroic qualities, and Boyle soon dismisses him as a serious suspect.
Two other murders follow the first, including that of a pretty nurse Kennedy had been busily seducing.
Boyle may have gotten a relatively cushy wartime assignment, yet here he winds up on a Pacific island swarming with enemy soldiers. But that is also where the murderer is, and Boyle gets his man, no matter what.
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