Mystery in White: A Christmas Crime Story

"This is a novel that was originally published in 1938 and has recently been brought back into print by the British Library’s Crime Classics imprint, becoming an unexpected bestseller when it was rereleased in 2014. I love it because of the opening setup: a collection of strangers are travelling home in the same train carriage on Christmas Eve when the train gets stuck in a snowdrift. They are forced to pool their resources and trek out into the snow to seek shelter for the night. The group finds a nearby house with the door ajar where a fire is burning, tea has been laid on the table as if guests are expected, but there’s nobody to be found. A quite creepy mystery unfolds from there!"