No stranger to sprawling country estates, well-heeled Daisy Dalrymple is breaking new ground when she goes to Wentwater Court to cover a story for Town & Country magazine, but her interview gives way to interrogation when suave Lord Stephen Astwick meets a chilly end on the tranquil skating pond. With evidence that his death was anything but accidental, Daisy joins forces with Scotland Yard to prevent the culprit slipping through their fingers like the unfortunate Astwick slipped through the ice...