Italy, Dolomites, small cozy village in the mountains. What could be better for a winter holiday? Inspector Henry Tibbett and his wife go on vacation to take a break from the bustle of the city and learn to ski. But after a couple of days in Santa Chiara, death intervenes in their idyllic pastime. In one of the chairs of the cable car, a corpse descends to the lower station of the lift. And a few days later another one. There are not many potential suspects, but everything is complicated by the fact that almost all of them have a motive... The Mansiple family has always been extravagant. But the neighbors have already become accustomed to the strange Irish and have long stopped discussing them. But the corpse of Raymond Mason in the driveway of their home provoked a new wave of rumors. Was this a stray bullet from George Mansiple's shooting range? Should we take into account the testimony of the only witness - a ninety-year-old woman who is interested in spiritualism? Does the son of the deceased have anything to do with what happened? Henry Tibbet once again has to reconstruct the picture of what happened and explain a series of strange events that happened in the Mansiples house.