The murder of Colonel Protheroe -- shot through the head -- is a shock to everyone in St Mary Mead, though hardly an unpleasant one. Now even the vicar, who had declared that killing the detested Protheroe would be 'doing the world at large a favour, ' is a suspect -- the Colonel has been dispatched in the clergyman's study, no less. But the picturesque English village of St Mary Mead is overpopulated with suspects. There is of course the faithless...

When two seemingly unrelated murders occur, it's up to Superintendent Battle to go back twenty years to uncover the truth.

A series of odd events at a youth hostel provide Hercule Poiret with one of his most baffling cases.

An archaeolgist's wife receives threatening letters from her first husband who is supposed to be dead and then is murdered in a locked room. Can Hercule Poirot solve this conundrum?

During a search for a missing person, Tommy and Tuppence find themselves in a race to thwart a malevolent plot to paralyze Great Britain through closely manipulated labor unrest.