"A white Christmas couldn't make Newcastle any less dreary for Scotland Yard's Superintendent
Richard Jury -- until he met a beautiful woman in a snow-covered graveyard. Sensual, warm, and a
bit mysterious, she could have put some life into his sagging holiday spirit. But the next time Jury
saw her, she was cold -- and dead.
"Melrose Plant, Jury's aristocratic sidekick wasn't faring much
better. Snow bound at a stately mansion with a group of artists, critics, and idle-but-titled rich, he,
too, encountered a lovely lady...or rather, stumbled over her corpse. What linked these two
yuletide murders was a remote country pub where snooker, a Nativity scene, and an old secret
would uncover a killer...or yet another death." -- from the back cover of the paperback edition, 1985 |