The event of Compton Poppleford's festive season has arrived: the Vicarage Christmas Party. With sherry, mince pies and Christmas carols, the festivities are going well. But events take a turn when the choirmaster is found dead in the parlour. Which of the guests could possibly commit murder at Christmas time?
With everyone detained at the vicarage, elderly sleuths Churchill and Pemberley find themselves in all the wrong places at all...