The author comes forth with another hit about a group of strangers stranded in a boarding
house during a snow storm, one of whom is a murderer. The suspects include the newly
married couple who run the house, and the suspicions that are in their minds nearly wreck
their perfect marriage. Others are a spinster with a curious background, an architect who
seems better equipped to be a chef, a retired Army major, a strange little man who claims his
car has overturned in a drift, and a jurist who makes life miserable for everyone. Into their
midst comes a policeman, traveling on skis. To get to the rationale of the murderer's pattern,
the policeman probes the background of everyone present, and rattles a lot of skeletons. Another famous Agatha Christie switch finish!
