The redoutable Hercule Poirot solves ten perplexing cases with his usual brilliance, including:

MURDER IN THE MEWS - Guy Fawkes' Night, a perfect night for murder. And next morning young Mrs Allen is found dead in her mews house. 

FOUR AND TWENTY BLACKBIRDS - A lonely, eccentric old man in a derelict house falls down and breaks his neck. But was it an accident?

THE ADVENTURE OF JOHNNIE WAVERLY - The letter said the child would be kidnapped and when. But his anxious parents had already contacted Hercule Poirot...