The eleventh book to feature the classic crime-solving detective Chief Inspector Wexford. Sir Manuel Camargue Kingsmarkham's very own celebrity flautist dies tragically on a snowy night. His death is met with a ruling of misadventure & appears to be an open-&-shut-case. However Wexford as the investigating officer has a few niggling doubts. Nineteen years later Camargue's entrancing daughter Natalie now a considerable heiress suddenly reappears in Kingsmarkham. When her fiance appeals to Wexford for help believing that Natalie is using a false identity the case of the Camargues is once more under investigation. Events soon take a gruesome twist & the pressure is on for Wexford to discover Natalie's true identity & to solve the mystery of the Camargue family once & for all.