'It is, then, your opinion that Christmas time is an unlikely season for crime?'rnrnChristmas Eve. Time for good cheer - eating, drinking and over-indulgence; an opportunity to bring together families who have grown apart. rnrnThe Lee family reunion is shattered by a deafening crash of furniture and a blood-curdling scream. The tyrannical Simeon Lee is found dead in a pool of his own blood, his throat slashed. Despite the festivities, it seems that everyone in the family hated the old man, one of them enough to kill him...