It's Christmas 1936 and an eclectic list of guests and staff have gathered for the grand reopening of Maybridge castle a newly renovated yet still crumbling hotel deep in the Cumbrian countryside. Amongst them are a doctor and his new wife tarot readers a journalist an elderly amateur sleuth and her cat. By the time the first sherries have been drunk a person will be dead. An innocent game of murder-in-the-dark turns into a real game of life and death. Someone has changed the rules. . . but who?
