When Poirot arrives in France following an urgent appeal for help he finds he is too late His client a South American millionaire has been stabbed to death & his body flung into a freshly dug open grave on the golf course adjoining the property Meanwhile the millionaire's wife is found bound & gagged in her room Her wrists are badly cut & she seems to be in shock but she agrees to speak to Poirot She tells him that they were attacked by thugs who tied her up & forced her husband to leave the house dressed only in his underwear before brutally killing him Poirot is not sure whether to believe her story Did she as the sole beneficiary of her millionaire husband's estate set the whole thing up? & if not who did kill M Renauld? The suspects include the mysterious Dulcie Duveen & Renauld's son Jack who had quarrelled violenty with his father As Poirot investigates the mystery begins to unfold
- but not before another murder occurs John Moffatt stars as Poirot with Jeremy Clyde as Captain Hastings Madeline Smith as Dulcie Duveen & Stephen Tompkinson as Jack 2 CDs 1 hr 30 mins