Murder at Beechlands

Also published as A Party for None (GB), A Party for Lawty (USA), and A Dinner for None A murderer stalks the halls of an isolated snowbound Sussex hotel Inspector Perry thought he'd stumbled into an insane asylum instead of a hotel. Inspector Lane Perry of Scotland Yard finds himself on a busman's holiday when he is forced to take refuge from a heavy snowstorm in a country hotel while traveling in Sussex in January 1948. When he first glimpses the hotel guests frolicking in the snow, he mistakes them for lunatics at play. Instead, he learns they are all guests invited to attend a homecoming…