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內容簡介 Named a New York Times Best Book to Give The world's greatest detective, Hercule Poirot--legendarystar of Agatha Christie's Murder on the Orient Express and Death onthe Nile--returns to solve a delectably twisty mystery in this "masterfuland multi-layered puzzle...adding a new dimension to a much-loved series"(NPR). "Yet again, the diminutive man with the little gray cellsdelivers the goods." --Wall Street Journal Hercule Poirot is traveling by luxury passenger coach fromLondon to the exclusive Kingfisher Hill estate. Richard Devonport has summonedthe renowned detective to prove that his fiancée, Helen, is innocent of themurder of his brother, Frank. Poirot will have only days to investigate beforeHelen is hanged, but there is one strange condition attached: he must concealhis true reason for being there from the rest of the Devonport family. The coach is forced to stop when a distressed woman demandsto get off, insisting that if she stays in her seat, she will be murdered.Although the rest of the journey passes without anyone being harmed, Poirot'scuriosity is aroused, and his fears are later confirmed when a body isdiscovered with a macabre note attached . . . Could this new murder and the peculiar incidenton the coach be clues to solving the mystery of who killed Frank Devonport? Andif Helen is innocent, can Poirot find the true culprit in time to save her fromthe gallows?
