Who is the beautiful actress whose trail leads to a Perfectly staged murder? What a re a mother and daughter to do when a haunted house becomes thei r deadly inheritance? Where better than a costume ball to conceal the identity of a rnasked killer? A varietv of uncanny Crlmes caiis for a variety of resolve. In thiS“hiIa rious burlesqUe of detective fiction”(New York Times),two of Agatha Christie's most adventUrous sIeuthS,Tommy and Tuppence Beresford,adOpt the rnethods and rnanners of every major Iiterary detective from Hercule Poirot to Sherlock Holmes to piece together an increaSIngly COrnPlex series of delightfully different--and deadlV—misdeeds.