A case shrouded in secrets.
It’s just before Christmas, 1953. Grasby and Juggers are investigating a puzzling murder in  the remote village of Uthley’s Bay. A fisherman has been found dead on the beach, with a  stocking wound tight round his throat.

A festive mystery for one and all.
Hundreds of pairs of stockings, in neat cellophane bags, soon wash up on the shore. A  blizzard cuts off Grasby and Juggers from help, and the local innkeeper is murdered. Any remaining Christmas cheer goes up in smoke as the villagers refuse to talk, leaving the two  detectives chasing false leads in the snow.

A winter wonderland with no escape.
To make matters worse, Grasby can’t stop thinking about stockings. Why does everyone  seem to be enjoying strangely high standards of hosiery, even beneath their oilskins? Who  is the sinister bespectacled man snooping around their hotel? And how can they solve the  murder when everyone in the village is a suspect?