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Inspector Lane Perry of Scotland Yard finds himself on a busman’s holiday during a heavy snowstorm in Sussex in January 1948. He takes refuge in the isolated Beechlands Hotel, expecting a plain winter stay, but is greeted by guests frolicking in the snow—colleagues invited to a home‑coming party for a celebrated war hero. When the battered body of Wing Commander Lawton Lawrence is discovered in the snow, Perry realizes the holiday has turned into a hunt for a murderer lurking among the guests.
Perry’s attempt to solve the mystery of the violent death at Beechlands tests his investigative skills against the backdrop of a tense post‑war England, surrounded by the constraints of a snowbound estate and a tight‑knit group of suspects.
First publish date: 2003
Genre: Mystery & Detective/Historical Mystery
Authors: Maureen Sarsfield
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