Hercule Poirot tries desperately to save a kidnapped child, Miss Jane Marple goes beyond the grave to protect a dead man's heirs from disaster, and Mr. Harley Quin tracks down a cunning killer.

When wealthy spinster Emily French is found murdered, suspicion falls on Leonard Vole, the man to whom she hastily bequeathed her riches before she died. Leonard assures the investigators that his wife, Romaine Heilger, can provide them with an alibi. However, when questioned, Romaine informs the police that Vole returned home late that night covered in blood. During the trial, Ms. French's housekeeper, Janet, gives damning evidence against Vole,...

Hercule Poirot and Miss Marple join up to match wits, nerve, and guile with the most cunning of killers and the most elusive of evildoers.

Christie’s famed detective, Hercule Poirot, is back again in Poirot Investigates, a collection of short stories in which the eccentric detective must solve a variety of chilling mysteries in the world of love and revenge. Stories such as “The Adventure of the Western Star” involve thievery of diamonds and a lover’s affair, while “The Mystery of Hunter’s Lodge” features murder and disguise.