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The Regatta Mystery: Diamond merchant Isaac Pointz and his guests come ashore at Dartmouth to enjoy the fair after the yacht races. Over dinner, young Eve Leathern bets she can make Pointz's famous diamond, the Morning Star, disappear right at the table. When the girl does exactly that, she discovers she has made the priceless gem disappear more completely than she had intended. Fortunately, Parker Pyne is able to get to the bottom of what really happened to the Morning Star. The Mystery of the Baghdad Chest: There's a body in a trunk; a dead girl's reflection is caught in a mirror; and one corpse is back from the grave, while another is envisioned in the recurring nightmare of a terrified eccentric. What's behind such ghastly misdeeds? Try money, revenge, passion, and pleasure. With multiple motives, multiple victims, and multiple suspects, it's going to take a multitude of talent to solve these clever crimes. How Does Your Garden Grow: Miss Lemon brings Hercule Poirot an intriguing letter from an old woman asking for his assistance. When the lady dies suddenly five days later, Poirot suspects foul play. He quickly travels to the scene, pretending the note from the elderly woman's family telling him that he was no longer needed had not arrived. His suspicions were further aroused. Was he right? Problem at Pollensa Bay: Parker Pyne is on holiday at the Hotel Pino D’Oro on the island of Mallorca, one of Spain's Balearic islands in the Mediterranean. He desperately wants to relax. Unfortunately also staying at the hotel are two fellow British guests, Mrs. Adela Chester and her dutiful son, Basil. When Mrs. Chester discovers that Pyne is a “wizard” at solving human problems, she calls on him to save Basil from a most unsuitable marriage. Yellow Iris: Hercule Poirot gets an an alarming telephone call late at night, in which the phrases “it’s life and death” and “the table with the yellow irises," are whispered. It results in Poirot rushing to the luxurious restaurant Jardin des Cygnes. He's desperate to stop an impending murder, and find the person behind the voice on the phone. After bumping into an old acquaintance, he is invited to join a dinner party in full swing. But, just as the dancing begins and champagne is overflowing, a morbid announcement is made and the lights go out. By the time they come back on, everything has changed…. Miss Marple Tells a Story: A man is accused of stabbing his wife in the chest while they were staying at a hotel. Only he and a chambermaid are suspects and the evidence against him seems infallible. In a desperate attempt to save his life, he and his solicitor come to Miss Marple seeking her help to prove his innocence. She asks a few questions.The Dream: Hercule Poirot is reluctant to answer a letter demanding his services from the reclusive and eccentric millionaire Benedict Farley. He's wary but goes to Northway House anyway. Farley wants him to diagnose his recurring dream of death, in which he shoots himself at precisely 3:28. Then, a week after dismissing Poirot, the dream becomes a reality. Each member of the Farley household questioned by Poirot seems to be more puzzled than the one before. Was Benedict Farley’s death a suicide, or were darker forces at work? In a Glass Darkly: The narrator is startled by a vision in his mirror. He sees a man with a scar on the left side of his face strangling a beautiful blonde woman. He later meets Sylvia, and realizes she is the woman of this terrible vision, and notes her fiancé has a scar exactly where he saw it. He tells her of his premonition, and the engagement is soon broken off. Is that all there is to the story or is there more? Problem at Sea: On a Mediterranean cruise ship, a woman is found stabbed to death in her cabin while the ship was in the port of Alexandria, Egypt. Was the murder committed by one of the sellers of post cards and beads who came on board in port? There's a rumour that money was missing from her cabin. Unfortunately for the murderer, Hercule Poirot is also one of the passengers. |
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