Detective Hercule Poirot arrives at Gorston Hall for the Christmas holidays only to discover his host, aging millionaire Simeon Lee, has been murdered, apparently by one of his guests.
While vacationing in Jerusalem, Hercule Poirot is called upon to solve the murder of another member of the tour group. Many people had a motive for killing Mrs. Boynton, and it is up to Poirot to find the killer.
Retired detective Hercule Poirot investigates the bizarre case of Sheila Webb, a typist-for-hire who arrives at a job to find a corpse surrounded by five clocks and no one there who knows anything about her being hired.
When a man is sentenced to death for the brutal murder of his landlord, Superintendent Spence, convinced of the man's innocence, seeks the help of former-police officer Hercule Poirot in solving the mystery.