Death in December

His respected - not very respected - chief had been grumbling all the way from London and now the speeding Alvis was well into the wild and hilly country of Derbyshire he was more caustic than ever. When Chief Inspector Bill “Ironsides” Cromwell accepts an invitation to spend Christmas at his sergeant’s family seat Cloon Castle he doesn’t realise the mysteries he’ll encounter. First there is a mysterious figure who leaves no footprints despite the heavy snow. Then an incident in a haunted room leads to a much more sinister mystery.