Elinor Carlisle has been accused of killing her wealthy Aunt and a rival in love. When Poirot comes to the case he quickly finds motive, opportunity and means for Elinor to have done the double murder. But a tidy package is not enough to satisfy Poirot's curiosity, and he eventually pieces together an entirely different picture of what really happened in a case that appeared to cut and dried.

Following the murder of a wealthy patriarch, Poirot is called upon to begin an investigation. The case takes a wild twist, however when his prime suspect turns up dead.

Set in the 1920s, a feisty flapper turns to amateur sleuthing, teaming up with a suave man-about-town. The dark forces of murder and international intrigue combine with the froth of romance and frivolity for a thriller with wicked Christie wit.

"Distressed young heiress Norma Restarick comes to see Hercule Poirot about 'a murder she might have committed.' The detective consults an old acquaintance, crime novelist Ariadne Oliver, who lives in the same building as the young woman and her two roommates. When Norma's childhood nanny is found dead, apparently by suicide, Poirot believes he has identified the victim. Next he must deduce the killer, while Norma's family fears for her sanity"--Container....

Three hour-long mysteries. "The million dollar bond robbery": Poirot tries to foil the theft of American bonds en route from London to New York. "The Plymouth express": A mining magnate's daughter has been killed for her jewels and Poirot investigates. "Wasps' nest": Poirot tries to solve a murder before it happens, but the victim isn't the person you'd expect.

Hercule Poirot is the executor of a will that disappears, investigates a case involving an Italian count, and reopens a case he failed to solve twenty years earlier.

The impeccably mannered Belgian detective Hercule Poirot solves several murders.

Belgian detective Hercule Poirot investigates a murder near his home, a poisoning while on vacation in Greece, and a murder that occurs on a cruise to Egypt.

Hercule Poirot suspects a muder has been disguised as suicide, investigates threats made against the son of a country squire, and uses his culinary skills to solve a murder.

"In these stories, lesser-known Christie heroes and heroines solve crimes of the heart as well as puzzling cases of larceny and murder. With just the right mix of danger and deception, romance and revenge, innocence and intrigue, these classic adaptations are Christie at her best"--Container.