Death in Midwinter — John Buxton Hilton

It was the dead of winter--in more ways than one. A family funeral brought a young politician to the town of Carrion Clough. And a lovely young milk-maid lured him to a scandalous rendezvous. Now the lass has been murdered. A brutal blizzard has left the village snowbound. And Inspector Kenworthy must plow through the icy drifts--and red-hot scandals to catch a coldhearted killer...

AN INSPECTOR KENWORTHY MYSTERY
With a pipe in his hand and a trick or two up his sleeve, Inspector Kenworthy is Scotland Yard's consummate master of investigation. Big, bearish, and sometimes bullying, he makes his sergeants quake and culprits tremble--for Kenworthy's keen eye for spotting "whodunnit" lets no one get away with murder.