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Published in 1930, this closed room murder mystery is set in the Sandhills of Nebraska. The author does a good job of making the atmosphere claustrophobic as nothing is as bleak as an isolated hunting lodge unreachable by civilized society die to an unrelenting blizzard. The characters were introduced in bulk and weren‘t unique as individuals. The mystery was a bit convoluted. A decent mystery but not a fantastic one.

I‘m not much of an old school mystery reader, nor a gothic fiction reader but I enjoyed this book. Eberhart did an amazing job creating an atmosphere of fear and suspicion in the book and kept me guessing till the last page.