This is another delightful volume in the "Flavia de Luce" mystery series. It's just before Christmas and, because of financial difficulties, Colonel de Luce has agreed to let a film crew rent Buckshaw Hall as a location for filming a movie featuring the famous Phyllis Wyvern. While the crew moves in, eleven year old Flavia is using her genius for chemistry to rig up a trap to catch Father Christmas to prove he is real in spite of what her older sisters have been telling her. Most of the town of Bishop's Lacey come to Buckshaw for a charity performance by the visiting actors only to be snowed in as a blizzard rages outside. When the inevitable murder victim is found, by Flavia of course, it takes hours for the police to arrive. Of course, the precocious Flavia cannot resist doing her own bit of investigating.
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