A game of charades leads to coldblooded murder within this entertaining cozy mystery-third in the Crime using the Classics series.

Having finished transforming Windy Corner, the grand Victorian mansion she inherited from her great aunt, right into a writers’ retreat, widowed literature professor Emily Cavanaugh is ready to receive her initial set of guests. But her careful planning is tossed into disarray by the unexpected entrance of outrageous true-crime article writer, Cruella Criminal offense, whose unpardonably rude behavior can be leading to great offence.

As a ferocious ice storm rages outside, the guests entertain one another with a game of charades. But their revelries are taken to a sudden halt by the discovery of the body in another of the guest sleeping rooms. When it transpires the sufferer was poisoned, Emily decides to have a leaf from the reserve of her favorite detective article writer, Agatha Christie, and investigate. But simply because she pursues her queries, it turns into chillingly very clear that she herself may have been the intended sufferer …