An urgent cry for help brings Poirot to France. When Hercule Poirot and his associate Arthur Hastings arrive in the French village of Merlinville-sur-Mer to meet their client Paul Renauld, they learn from the police that he has been found that morning stabbed in the back with a letter opener and left in a newly-dug grave adjacent to a local golf course.

Among the plausible suspects are Renauld's wife Eloise, his son Jack, Renauld's and the mysterious "Cinderella" of Hasting's recent acquaintance. Poirot's powers of investigation ultimately triumph over the wiles of an assailant whose misdirection and motives are nearly but not quite impossible to spot.

An urgent cry for help brings Poirot to France. When Hercule Poirot and his associate Arthur Hastings arrive in the French village of Merlinville-sur-Mer to meet their client Paul Renauld, they learn from the police that he has been found that morning stabbed in the back with a letter opener and left in a newly-dug grave adjacent to a local golf course.

Among the plausible suspects are Renauld's wife Eloise, his son Jack, Renauld's and the mysterious "Cinderella" of Hasting's recent acquaintance. Poirot's powers of investigation ultimately triumph over the wiles of an assailant whose misdirection and motives are nearly but not quite impossible to spot.

An urgent cry for help brings Poirot to France. When Hercule Poirot and his associate Arthur Hastings arrive in the French village of Merlinville-sur-Mer to meet their client Paul Renauld, they learn from the police that he has been found that morning stabbed in the back with a letter opener and left in a newly-dug grave adjacent to a local golf course.

Among the plausible suspects are Renauld's wife Eloise, his son Jack, Renauld's and the mysterious "Cinderella" of Hasting's recent acquaintance. Poirot's powers of investigation ultimately triumph over the wiles of an assailant whose misdirection and motives are nearly but not quite impossible to spot.

An urgent cry for help brings Poirot to France. When Hercule Poirot and his associate Arthur Hastings arrive in the French village of Merlinville-sur-Mer to meet their client Paul Renauld, they learn from the police that he has been found that morning stabbed in the back with a letter opener and left in a newly-dug grave adjacent to a local golf course.

Among the plausible suspects are Renauld's wife Eloise, his son Jack, Renauld's and the mysterious "Cinderella" of Hasting's recent acquaintance. Poirot's powers of investigation ultimately triumph over the wiles of an assailant whose misdirection and motives are nearly but not quite impossible to spot.

When a body of a woman is discovered in the third floor flat of Friar Mansions, it is fortunate that Hercule Poirot lives in the same block and is on hand – but can he help?

Poirot visits a friend, John Harrison, and tells him he is on a mission to solve a murder that has not yet been committed, in the hopes of preventing a murder.

Attempting to holiday in Devon, Poirot and Hastings are interrupted when a woman’s selection of antique miniatures are stolen from a woman's case on a train.

When Poirot receives an invitation to dinner from Robert Astwell, he is happy to accept. When he arrives, however, he discovers that Astwell is universally disliked. When Astwell is discovered murdered there is no shortage of suspects!

Lady Astwell is convinced that it is the secretary and not her nephew who murdered her husband but she has no proof, only "intuition". She hires Poirot to investigate.