"Who killed whom?" The question is posed of mystery writer Ariadne Oliver. This time the whodunit isn't fiction, but rather a true crime from her own past: an apparent case of double suicide that claimed the lives of two friends twelve years earlier. With the aid of Hercule Poirot, the answer might be found in the scandalous revelations of a Swiss schoolmistress, in a doctor's bizarre diagnosis, or in a terrifying tale told by an old woman. But the most startling discovery is yet to come. And if memory serves Poirot, crime--like history--has a tendency to repeat itself...

"Who killed whom?" The question is posed of mystery writer Ariadne Oliver. This time the whodunit isn’t fiction, but rather a true crime from her own past: an apparent case of double suicide that claimed the lives of two friends twelve years earlier. With the aid of Hercule Poirot, the answer might be found in the scandalous revelations of a Swiss schoolmistress, in a doctor’s bizarre diagnosis, or in a terrifying tale told by an old woman. But the most startling discovery is yet to come. And if memory serves Poirot, crime--like history--has a tendency to repeat itself...

1 A Literary Luncheon

2 Fist Mention of Elephants

BOOK I Elephants

3 Great-aunt Alice"s Guide to Knowledge

4 Celia

5 Old Sins Have Long Shadows

6 An Old Friend Remembers

7 Back to the Nursery

8 Mrs. Oliver at Work

9 Results of Elephantine Research

10 Desmond

BOOK II Long Shadows

11 Superintendent Garroway and Poirot Compare Notes

12 Celia Meets Hercule Poirot

13 Mrs. Burton-Cox

14 Dr. Willoughby