No locked room in sight (although there is a years-before death where the dead man is found surrounded by a field of virgin snow.) This is more a tale of a maniac in a small English town and how a newlywed couple deal with the tragic events and their tenuous connection to a former family that lived in the same manor house. We get to read excerpts from the diary of the woman in love with the years-before dead man, which were tedious. Halter has written better mysteries (like The Fourth Door) and this ranks as one of my least favorite of his tales.
