Published in 1986
 From the back cover (Orion 2002 edition):
Chief Superintendent Wycliffe is not looking forward to Christmas. With his wife away in Kenya he rashly accepts an invitation from Penzance lawyer Ernest Bishop to spend a few days at the Bishops' cliff-top home. When Wycliffe arrives the weather is bleak, the house remote, and the welcome from the family no more than polite.
Then a young girl goes missing after playing the part of the Virgin in the local nativity play. The girl was withdrawn, difficult and unpopular in the neighbourhood, and even her parents seem strangely unsurprised by their daughter's disappearance.
It is left to Wycliffe to initiate a search - but what begins as a missing person case soon turns into a major criminal investigation ...
Location: "I have taken the liberty of using the name [Mulfra] for a village on the coast road between Zennor and Morvah, a village which only exists in the pages of this book."
Zennor is a tiny settlement on the road from St Ives to St Just and Land’s End with a population of about 250. Morvah, a few miles on towards Land's End, has a population of about 80. See the Three Toed Pussy webpage for more information on the area.
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