Через несколько недель после женитьбы на привлекательной молодой вдове богач Гордон Клоуд трагически погиб, не успев составить завещание. Случайность или чей-то дьявольский план? Началась жестокая, полная хитростей и интриг схватка за наследство между молодой вдовой и родственниками миллионера. В водоворот событий оказывается втянут великий сыщик Эркюль Пуаро, которому благодаря гениальному дару удается найти ответ на самый сложный вопрос...
Miss Jane Marple is on vacation and loving every minute of her stay at London's eminently expensive bastion of tradition. Bertam's Hotel. but its impeccable old-world reputation is being tarnished -- by new blood. For someone disreputable has just checked in. And what's now going on at Bertam's Hotel is a crime.
It was not unusual to find the beautiful bronzed body of the sun-loving Arlena Stuart stretched out on a beach, face down. Only, on this occasion, there was no sun...she had been strangled. Ever since Arlena's arrival at the resort, Hercule Poirot had detected sexual tension in the seaside air. But could this apparent 'crime of passion' have been something more evil and premeditated altogether? Belgian detective Hercule Poirot interrupts his vacation on Smugglers' Island to help the local police invetigate the murder of an attractive woman.