Rex Graves is a Scottish barrister and has been invited to Brighton for Christmas. The weather is
dreadful, and shortly after his arrival he and the other guests are
snowed in. When he arrives, he finds that an elderly guest has died.
However, Charley, who is newly married and a paramedic, tells him that
he thinks that the old fellow died as a result of cyanide poisoning.
Rex
begins subtlety questioning the staff and guests about the evening in
question. Charley finds an empty bottle of sodium cyanide in the trash
outside. However, Mrs. Smithings, the owner of the hotel, claims it is
used to clean jewelry.
That evening another death occurs when an
American guest slips on the cellar stairs and falls to her death. Is it
coincidence or murder? A mark on the back of her neck points to the
latter. When a third person is murdered, the hotel is put into
disarray. Everyone is a suspect.
On Christmas morning Rex meets
with everyone together and goes through the list of possible suspects.
He also presents evidence of the true culprits, who are apprehended by
the other guests and held for the police.
This was not a bad murder mystery for what I believe is a first time writer.
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