Christmas time in an isolated country house and, following a flaming row in the kitchen, there's murder inside.
When a much disliked visiting servant disappears without trace after playing Santa Claus, foul play is at once suspected - and foul play it proves to be. Only suspicion falls not on the staff but on the guests, all so unimpeachably respectable that the very thought of murder in connection with any of them seems almost heresy.
When Superintendent Roderick Alleyn returns unexpectedly from a trip to Australia, it is to find his beloved wife in the thick of an intriguing mystery…
| ISBN: | 9780008511012 |
| Publication date: | 10th November 2022 |
| Author: | Ngaio Marsh |
| Publisher: | Collins Crime Club an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 304 pages |
| Series: | Inspector Roderick Alleyn |
| Genres: |
Classic fiction: general and literary Classic crime and mystery fiction Crime and mystery: private investigator / amateur detectives Crime and mystery: cosy mystery Crime and mystery: police procedural Narrative theme: Death, grief, loss |