Christie, Agatha

Belgian detective Hercule Poirot must wade through a wealth of suspects to learn the truth about the murder of heiress Emily Inglethorpe who was found poisoned in her locked bedroom at her home in quaint Styles St. Mary.

Ten strangers--each with a sordid past--are summoned by an absent millionaire to a private island off the coast of Devon and begin to die one by one upon arrival.

Miss Jane Marple investigates the poisoning death of a fan of Marina Gregg, the film star who recently took up residence in St. Mary Mead and may have been the killer's intended target.

Miss Marple helps a young couple solve a murder that had occurred eighteen years earlier.

One of the very respectable guests at the festive Hallowe'en party must have committed murder--someone who had a nasty shock from Joyce's revelation.