Out of the blue, Emma Warwick receives a 'phone call from her cousin Bevil, asking her if she will visit a hotel in the West Country at Christmas to do some snooping around for him. He explains that he is a co-trustee under the Will of his old friend Charles Penwarden, whose home had been converted into The Tolmar Hotel. Bevil had been unable to contact his co-trustee there, and felt that something suspicious was going on. At The Tolmar, Emma is...