Bewitching actress Jane Wilkinson wants a divorce, but her husband, Lord Edgware, refuses. She implores Hercule Poirot to use his famed tact and logic to make her case. Laughing, she tells Poirot if he fails she may have to do away with her husband herself. But it is no laughing matter when Lord Edgware is murdered, a well-placed knife wound at the base of his neck. It will take the precise Poirot to sort out the lies from the alibis--and find the...

Anne Beddingfeld wants more than the humdrum routine of the workaday world. She counteracts this by stepping out of the Cairo Airport and into a world of stolen diamonds, secret messages, criminal masterminds, spies and sudden death.

Movie star Charles Cartwright's houseguests drink martinis: clear, cold, and one of them poisoned. Rev. Babbington imbibes the fatal cocktail. But who would want to kill a kindly old clergyman?