Poirot receives a visit from Miss Mary Marvell, the famous American film star on her visit to London. She has received three letters, handed to her by a Chinese man, which warn her to return her fabulous diamond jewel, the «Western Star», to where it came from – the left eye of an idol – before the next full moon.
A man returns from the dead, and the body of a mysterious stranger is found in his room…A few weeks after marrying an attractive young widow, Gordon Cloade is tragically killed by a bomb blast in the London blitz. Overnight, the former Mrs Underhay finds herself in sole possession of the Cloade family fortune.Shortly afterwards, Hercule Poirot receives a visit from the dead man’s sister-in-law who claims she has been warned by ‘spirits’ that Mrs Underhay’s first husband is still alive. Poirot...
Agatha Christie 1937. aastal ilmunud romaanis pöördub Hercule Poirot poole rikas noor abielunaine Linnet Doyle. Poirot kavatseb parajasti asuda lõbusõidule Niilusel ning sama plaan on ka Linnetil ja tema vastsel abikaasal. Linnet on abiellunud oma sõbranna peigmehega ning muidugi pole nüüd enam sõprusest juttugi. Pettunud ja kibestunud Jacqueline de Bellefort jälitab noorpaari kõikjal ja püüab nende elu igati ebamugavaks teha. Selgub, et temagi on aurikule pileti ostnud, ning kuigi Poirot ei...
A beautiful heiress is fatally poisoned in a West End restaurant…Six people sit down to dinner at a table laid for seven. In front of the empty place is a sprig of rosemary – in solemn memory of Rosemary Barton who died at the same table exactly one year previously.No one present on that fateful night would ever forget the woman’s face, contorted beyond recognition – or what they remembered about her astonishing life.
