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.