Used book – At the Twelfth Stroke of Midnight, Patricia Wentworth, Anne-Marie Carrière

As every year, James Paradine gathered his family for New Year's Eve. But this year, during dessert, he drops a bombshell: one of his guests has seriously betrayed him. He gives the culprit until midnight to come and meet him in his office and "confess". On New Year's Day morning, Sir James Paradine is found dead. And it's no accident...

By what strange coincidence is Maud Silver staying for a few days in the neighboring village? The charming and eccentric old lady, with her eternal knitting, won't be able to resist conducting her own investigation.