A group of strangers is 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. He no sooner arrives, than someone is killed.
Two down, and one to go. 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!
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