Sir Charles Cartwright should have known better than to allow thirteen guests to sit down for dinner. For at the end of the evening one of them is dead -choked by a cocktail which contained no trace of poison. Predictable, says Hercule Poirot, the great detective. But entirely unpredictable is that he can find absolutely no motive for murder...
’Mrs Christie at the top of her form.’
--Dorothy L.Sayers, Sunday Times
First Act
Suspicion
1 Crow’s Nest
2 Incident Before Dinner
3 Sir Charles Wonders
4 A Modem Elaine
5 Flight From A Lady
Second Act
Certainty
1 Sir Charles Receives A Letter
2 The Missing Butler
3 Which Of Them?
4 The Evidence Of The Servants
5 In The Butler’s Room
6 Concerning An Ink-Stain
7 Plan Of Campaign
Third Act
Dlscovery
1 Mrs Babbington
2 Lady Mary
3 Re-Enter Hercule Poirot
4 A Watching Brief
5 Division of Labour
6 Cynthia Dacres
7 Captain Dacres
8 Angela Sutcliffe
9 Muriel Wills
10 Oliver Manders
11 Poirot Gives A Sherry Party
12 Day At Gilling
13 Mrs De Rushbridger
14 Miss Milray
15 Curtain