Miss Jane Marple and Inspector Curry of Scotland Yard are both investigating a vicious, cold-blooded murder at Stoneygates, a home for juvenile delinquents.
Superintendent Battle of Scotland Yard investigates a vicious crime. But the evidence is too neat and the clues, incriminating as they are, do not reveal the killer.
Belgian detective Hercule Poirot sets out to investigate a baffling case when he arrives at Lady Angkatell's estate for a weekend house party to find a doctor lying dead in a puddle of blood and his timid wife standing over the corpse with a gun.