A séance in a snowbound village delivers an impossible message: Captain Trevelyan is dead-and he has been murdered. Deep in the winter isolation of Dartmoor, the inhabitants of Sittaford gather for an evening of table-turning. What begins as entertainment becomes chilling when the spirits announce the death of Captain Trevelyan. With the roads buried beneath heavy snow, Major Burnaby sets out on foot for the captain's nearby home-and discovers that the supernatural warning was horrifyingly accurate. Trevelyan has been killed, and the evidence soon points toward an obvious suspect. Emily Trefusis is not convinced. Determined to clear the man accused of the crime, she launches an investigation of her own while Inspector Narracott follows the official trail. Among remote cottages, concealed motives, suspicious strangers, and the bleak expanses of Dartmoor, Christie constructs an intricate puzzle in which nearly everyone knows more than they admit. Atmospheric, ingenious, and filled with misdirection, The Sittaford Mystery is a superb snowbound whodunit from the Queen of Crime.

Agatha Christie (1890-1976) was an English novelist, playwright, and short-story writer whose ingenious plots and unforgettable detectives transformed the mystery genre. She created Hercule Poirot, Miss Marple, Tommy and Tuppence, and a host of memorable independent investigators, building her mysteries around tightly constructed puzzles, hidden motives, psychological observation, and the deceptiveness of appearances. Over a career spanning more than five decades, Christie wrote sixty-six detective novels and fourteen short-story collections, as well as plays including The Mousetrap. Her work ranges from country-house murders and village mysteries to international thrillers and archaeological adventures, and her command of misdirection made her one of the most influential crime writers of the twentieth century.