
Hercule Poirot is drawn into a case when a woman predicts her own murder, soon linked to three hotel deaths marked by monogrammed cufflinks.
Hercule Poirot is drawn into a case when a woman predicts her own murder, soon linked to three hotel deaths marked by monogrammed cufflinks.
"I'm a dead woman, or I shall be soon . . ." Hercule Poirot's quiet supper in a London coffeehouse is interrupted when a young woman confides to him that she is about to be murdered. Though terrified, she begs Poirot not to find and punish her killer. Once she is dead, she insists, justice will have been done. Later that night, Poirot learns that three guests at a London Hotel have been murdered, and a monogrammed cufflink has been placed in each one's mouth. Could there be a connection with the...
will contain mild spoilers
Past passion and romantic betrayal drive motives; no explicit scenes
Multiple murders; bodies posed with cufflinks in mouths; little gore
No strong language present
Social drinking in period London settings
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Moral guilt, deserved punishment, and justice themes
No fantasy magic present
No occult or demonic content present
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Revenge, past betrayal, and emotional cruelty central to plot
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