An urgent appeal help brings Hercule Poirot with Unaccustomed haste to France. Alas, he arrives too late.
His client, a mysteriousmillionaire, has been Brutally stabbed to death…the corpse flung carelessly into an open grave.
But Poirot knows that it’s the little grey cells that count.
And as he starts to unravel the strange circumstances surrounding this baffling murder, he discovers that the clue to the killer’s identity lies in a crime committed more than twenty years in the past…
