Arctic Murder Mystery: Survivors, Scientists, and Secrets

The main characters are three men: Peter Mason, Jackstraw, and Joss. They were working in a weather station in the Arctic when suddenly, they heard a huge noise. They left the weather station to know what had happened. They found out that the noise had been an accident of a plane. When they reached the plane, they fortunately found 10 survivors, but they also found several dead men, with one of them dead by a bullet, not the crash, so it was clear that there were some murderers among all of them.

The rest of the story runs on trying to guess who the murderers are. Peter Mason, Jackstraw, and Joss are men who are experienced in working in extreme conditions, but they have never managed a situation as described in the book. The leader of the three is Peter Mason, who, with the help of his two fellow workers, will try to find out what is happening and why a plane appears in the middle of the Arctic. At the end, they get to know that there were two murderers who forced the pilots of the plane to land in the ice-cap because in the plane there was a top secret guided-missile mechanism which is valued about a million pounds.

The rest of the characters (the survivors) are secondary characters (Corazzini, Marie Legarde, the boxer…), and the writer does not describe them in detail.

The story begins with the suspicious crash-landing of a passenger airliner in the middle of the Greenland ice cap.

The crashed plane is discovered by a group of scientists who rescue the surviving passengers and take them to their station, but soon the scientists discover that among the passengers there are two murderers, so all the passengers are suspicious.

As they don't have enough food for all of them, they decide to go to a station near the coast but in the middle of the journey the murderers are discovered and they, who have a really expensive and important military object, abandon the rest of the passengers and the scientists and go to the coast where some friends are waiting for them in a boat to escape.

Then, another group of scientists find the abandoned passengers and scientists, and all of them find the murderers before reaching the coast. Then they kill one of them and don't help the other, who finally dies at the butt of a crevasse.

Finally, the passengers and the scientists survive.