On New Year's Day at Haworth Hotel, one guest does not wake up: the murdered man in his bloody hotel bed. Chief Inspector Morse, lacking any witnesses, must find the murderer regardless! Seventh in the series. "Sleuthing in the slush following a New Year's Eve murder doesn't make Morse the merrier, but Michael Pennington's pellucid rendering of Colin Dexter's umpteenth yarn about the chief inspector does make the old griper gripping."—People