An old widow is brutally killed in the parlour of her cottage... Mrs Mc Ginty died from a brutal blow to the back of her head. Suspicion fell immediately on her shifty lodger James Bentley whose clothes revealed traces of the victim's blood & hair. Yet something was amiss: Bentley just didn't look like a murderer. Poirot believed he could save the man from the gallows
- what he didn't realise was that his own life was now in great danger...