The acclaimed British Library Crime Classics series welcomes an intricate puzzle with a perfect solution in the form of Carter Dickson's holiday mystery, The White Priory Murders.

In this holiday mystery, first published in 1934, Dickson treats the reader to sensational twists, feverish tension between a closed circle of suspects, and one of the most perfect solutions in the history of the genre.

James Bennett has been invited to stay at White Priory for Christmas, among the retinue of the glamorous Hollywood actress Marcia Tait, who is soon to star in a play on the life and loves of King Charles II. Her producer, her lover, her playwright, and her agent are all here along with the haughty master of the estate and his daughter.

All guests become suspects when Marcia Tait is found dead within Charles II's trysting pavillion on Christmas morning in a seemingly perfect crime. Though the police determine that Marcia died as the snow fell the night before, she is alone, and the lakeside pavilion is approached by only the footprints of the man who discovered her.

Bennett's uncle, Sir Henry Merrivale (the cantankerous yet genius sleuth), is summoned to bring the case to its elegant and difficult-to-predict conclusion.