Resumé af Brendan de Bois' 'The Dark Snow'

The Dark Snow is a story written by Brendan de Bois. He is an American mystery fiction and suspense writer. He had his short story The Dark Snow published in Best American Mystery Stories of the Century edited by Otto Penzler and Tony Hillerman.

The narrator comes to Nansen, New Hampshire. He has bought a house along the shoreline of Lake Marie. In the house he has problems going to sleep. He can’t sleep at night because there are some bad noises. After some days in his new house, he has few boxes of stuff that belong to him. He checks the bulky folder that has accompanied his retirement, and he pulls out an envelope with a psychiatrist’s name on. He decides to go and talk to him. The psychiatrist’s name is Ron. The narrator tells Ron about his troubles with sleeping and that he is missing his weapons.

Days later he sits enjoying a book when three high-powered speedboats distract him. They are racing around on the lake and tossing up great spray and noise. The next day he makes two phone-calls, to the town hall and the police department of Nansen. But there is no local or state law forbidding boats from mooring together. There is no noise ordinance.