Fire Will Freeze by Margaret Millar, Hardcover

Dust jacket has wear and some tears but is fully intact. Binding is tight. Pages have no markings, no tears, no creases. Dark tanning but still legible.

In this book Margaret Millar returns to the wry mixture of imaginative farce and queasy horror which first won the hearts of mystery fans. It has a firm, fast plot and a rich variety of characters that are as real as they are amusing. They are presented first through the eyes of Isobel Seton, a candid and witty New Yorker who has bought skis and is riding on Sno-bus to a Sno-lodge in the wilds of Quebec in the middle of a sno-storm. Other passengers include an assortment of characters who are fitting foils for her candor and wit. There’s a bus driver too, who stops the car in the middle of nowhere walks away into the blizzard and doesn’t t come back. The account of what happens to the stranded ski party in that decayed wilderness chateau during the mad night that follows will provide mystery fans with the kind of evening that they are fanatical about The bus-driver's coat discovered under the coal, the grizzly find in the sno-bound front yard along toward morning, and the other hair-raising adventures make up the swiftest and most entertaining of Mrs. Millar's contributions to hairbreadth-escape literature.