Nine graduates of Damien Anderson's Detective Training Agency assemble at an isolated vacation home in northern California for a class reunion. But their host remains elusive ... until he is found dead in a closet. Soon thereafter, the murders begin. One by one, the graduates are eliminated by a mysterious person who has decided to pit his or her wits against the guests'. As a snowstorm traps the party, the survivors come to realize that the murderer must be one of them. Yet despite the guests' attempts to protect themselves, the killings continue. What is the killer's motivation? Is an old grudge at work? Could the explanation be related to a series of mysterious accidents on the set of a film titledNine Man's Murder, which the classmates had investigated fifteen years earlier?Nine Man's Murderis a suspenseful locked-room mystery in the grand tradition of Agatha Christie'sAnd Then There Were None.