Status Updates From The Sittaford Mystery

"The scene that met his eyes was typical of the English countryside as depicted on Xmas cards and in old-fashioned melodramas. Everywhere was snow, deep drifts of it...and up here on the fringe of Dartmoor it had attained a depth of several feet. In the tiny village of Sittaford, at all times remote from the world, and now almost completely cut off, the rigours of winter were a very real problem."