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"It was a typical Dickens' Christmas -- deep snow everywhere -- and down in the little village of Sittaford on the fringe of Dartmoor, the snow was the deepest of all. Mrs. Willett, the winter tenant in Captain Trevelyan's country house, had given a party and the guests were now snowbound. They decided to do a little table-turning, and suddenly the table announced that Captain Trevelyan was dead. His oldest friend, Major Burnaby, was disturbed, and...
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One year ago, seven people sat down to dinner. One of them, Rosemary Barton, never got up. She was thought to have committed suicide due to a post-flu depression. When her husband, George, begins receiving anonymous letters saying that Rosemary was murdered, he decides to investigate. He reconstructs the fateful dinner precisely, invites the same people, and hires an actress that looks like his wife to play her role. The actress does not arrive...