Description

Morris dance and Pagan revelry in the centre of an extremely cold winter set the scene for just one of Ngaio Marshis most intriguing murder-mysteries. She rapidly antagonizes the villagers, once the annoying Anna Bunz gets to Mardian to research the survival of people-dance still practised there. But Mrs Bunz isn't the only real supply of friction -- two of another fanatics will also be spoiling for a fight. Once the blade performers' conventional fake beheading of the Wintertime Solstice becomes unbelievably true, Superintendent Roderick Alleyn finds herself confronted with an incident of good difficulty and of ugly amounts,