’It will be a very acute reader who does not receive a complete surprise at the end."
--Times Literary Supplement
From seat No.9, Hercule Poirot was ideally placed to observe his fellow air passengers. Over to his right sat a pretty young woman, clearly infatuated with the man opposite; ahead, in seat No.13, sat a Countess with a poorly- concealed cocaine habit; across the gangway in seat No.8, a detective writer was being troubled by an aggressive wasp.
What Poirot did not yet realize was that behind him in seat No.2, sat the slumped, lifeless body of a woman...
1 Paris to Croydon 11
2 Discovery 23
3 Croydon 31
4 The Inquest 55
5 After the Inquest 71
6 Consultation 83
7 Probabilities 91
8 The List 109
9 Elise Grandier 117
10 The Little Black Book 127
11 The American 141
12 At Horbury Chase 163
13 At Antoine’s 175
14 At Muswell Hill 189
15 InBloomsbury 209
16 Plan of Campaign 2135
17 In Wandsworth 225
18 In Queen Victoria Street 231
19 Enter and Exit Mr Robinson 237
20 In Harley Street 253
21 The Three Clues 259
22 Jane Takes a New Job 267
23 Anne Morisot 279
24 A Broken Finger-Nail 293
25 ’I Am Afraid’ 299
26 After Dinner Speech 311