To the normally quiet resort of Westwick-on-Sea, known usually for sea, sand and on the rare occasion, when the Summer lived up to its name, sun, comes a very different kind of visitor..A winter snowstorm, a disappearance, an errant husband; old story, as it seems, or is it.. A discovery, a readymade suspect, and Inspector Carstairs thinks he has his case neatly solved. But life is not that simple, as he is to discover when a clever opponent almost wrecks his career.