Montagu Kemp and Diane Heriot arrive at Westingborough station in a raging blizzard, intent on joining the house party at Castel Garde, the country home of Jim Houghton. Having battled through the snow to reach the house, they are dismayed to find the immoral financier Malcolm Carmichael is a guest of Houghton's - and Diane is appalled to learn that Carmichael intends to ruin their host. But when Carmichael is murdered during a party game, the guests at Castel Garde must face up to the fact that they are cut off for the night with a killer in their midst...
Originally published in 1935, this is a vintage murder mystery from the golden age of crime fiction.