With these words, Lady Athelinda Playford -- one of the
world's most beloved children's authors -- springs a
surprise on the lawyer entrusted with her will. As guests
arrive for a party at her Irish mansion, Lady Playford
has decided to cut off her two children without a penny .
. . and leave her vast fortune to someone else: an
invalid who has only weeks to live.
Among Lady Playford's visitors are two strangers: the
famous Belgian detective Hercule Poirot, and Inspector
Edward Catchpool of Scotland Yard. Neither knows why he
has been invited -- until Poirot begins to wonder if Lady
Playford expects a murder. But why does she seem so
determined to provoke a killer? And why -- when the crime
is committed despite Poirot's best efforts to stop it --
does the identity of the victim make no sense at all?
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