Tuppence is complaining about her dull life after getting married to Tommy. She wishes something adventurous would happen that would excite her. While discussing their lives, Mr Carter, the Chief, pays them a visit and asks them to run a detective agency to investigate a ham merchant and a hidden…
A man walks to an unknown destination and meets his Russian friends in a dilapidated building. Then, they exchanged a parcel with an American after he paid his money to them. The vagueness of the story continues with another character named M. le Marquis, who wears a mask visiting a…
The narrator has spent a year and a half on a ranch in Argentine. He had landed in France two days before and was en route to London. The narrator reveals that he will meet his friend Poirot and through his reminiscence about his old friend, we get to know…
One-Sentence Summary: Roger Ackroyd's lover is going to reveal who has been blackmailing her and forces her to commit suicide, but the blackmailer has acted first before the revelation. The narrator, Dr James Sheppard, introduces himself at the beginning of his memoir and recalls a murder that occurred in his…
Anthony Cade hates his current job as a tour guide for Castle's Select Tours in Bulawayo but has no choice due to financial difficulties. He meets his old friend James McGrath, and James offers him a job. Anthony agrees to deliver a manuscript of Count Stylptitch's memoir to a publisher…
The narrator, Anne Beddingfeld begins her adventure story with the introduction of her father. Her father is Professor Beddingfeld, was one of England’s greatest living authorities on Primitive Man. His mind dwelt in Paleolithic times and despise the modern world. His fame doesn't bring sufficient money into their life.…
The Adventure of the Western Star Poirot receives a visit from Miss Mary Marvell, the famous American film star on her visit to London. She has received three letters, handed to her by a Chinese man, which warn her to return her fabulous diamond jewel, the "Western Star"…
Poirot and Hastings travel to France after they received a letter from Paul Renauld. When they arrive at his home, local police inform them that he had been found dead in the morning. Paul Renauld is stabbed in the back and left in the newly dug grave adjacent to the…
Set in 1919 London, Tommy and Tuppence, experiencing unemployment and shortage of money. They form a partnership, hiring themselves out as “young adventurers”. They are overhead by Mr. Whittington who follows Tuppence to offer her a position. However, when Tuppence gives her name as “Jane Finn”, he is shocked and…
"Ah, I am glad she has come. There is a woman with a head and a heart too, Hastings. Though the good God gave her no beauty!" Hastings (the narrator of this story) was on his sick leave from the First World War. His old friend John Cavendish…