Agatha Christie's lively and stylish whodunit offers mystery lovers an abundance of twists and turns as well as a dash of romance. Both are incapable of solving the murder until the discovery of a second corpse, slain in the same manner as the first, provides fresh clues. The instant dislike formed between Poirot and Monsieur Giraud of the Paris Sûreté further intensifies the investigation, which becomes a competition between their radically different approaches to crime detection. But the thugs prove untraceable even as the roster of suspects expands. Renauld's wife, found bound and gagged in her bedroom, identifies a pair of masked intruders as the likeliest culprits. Stabbed in the back, Poirot's would-be client lies in a shallow grave on the golf course alongside his estate.
The Belgian sleuth - accompanied by Captain Hastings, his friend from The Mysterious Affair at Styles - rushes to answer the call but arrives too late. A wealthy English financier living in France, Renauld hints at being in possession of a deadly secret. "For God's sake, come!" implores the letter to Hercule Poirot from Paul Renauld. "Here is a remarkably good detective story." - The New York Times Book Review
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