A wheelchair-bound Poirot returns to Styles, the venue of his first investigation, where he knows another murder is going to take place...The house guests at Styles seemed perfectly pleasant to Captain Hastings; there was his own daughter Judith, an inoffensive ornithologist called Norton, dashing Mr Allerton, brittle Miss Cole, Doctor Franklin and his fragile wife Barbara , Nu...(展开全部)

A wheelchair-bound Poirot returns to Styles, the venue of his first investigation, where he knows another murder is going to take place...The house guests at Styles seemed perfectly pleasant to Captain Hastings; there was his own daughter Judith, an inoffensive ornithologist called Norton, dashing Mr Allerton, brittle Miss Cole, Doctor Franklin and his fragile wife Barbara , Nu...(展开全部)

埃勒里·奎因，美国推理小说的同义词，黄金时代三大家之一，推理王朝的建立者。 埃勒里·奎因是一对表兄弟合用的笔名。这对表兄弟在美国纽约出生。表哥是出生于一九○五年一月十一日的曼弗德·里波夫斯基，表弟是出生于同年十月二十日的丹尼尔·纳森。成年之后，表哥改名为曼弗雷德·班宁顿·李，表弟改名为弗雷德里克·丹奈。 李和丹奈虽是兄弟，性格却截然不同。李内向沉稳，是个智慧型的学者；丹奈则张扬热情，拥有发泄不完的能量。两个人碰到一起所做的唯一一件事就是争吵，而且一吵就是几十年。李说过：“基本上，我们对于推理小说的看法完全不同。”丹奈则说：“我们对任何事的看法根本上都不相同。”就是这样一对冤家，却成为了推理小说创作领域的第一搭档。

埃勒里·奎因，美国推理小说的同义词，黄金时代三大家之一，推理王朝的建立者。 埃勒里·奎因是一对表兄弟合用的笔名。这对表兄弟在美国纽约出生。表哥是出生于一九○五年一月十一日的曼弗德·里波夫斯基，表弟是出生于同年十月二十日的丹尼尔·纳森。成年之后，表哥改名为曼弗雷德·班宁顿·李，表弟改名为弗雷德里克·丹奈。 李和丹奈虽是兄弟，性格却截然不同。李内向沉稳，是个智慧型的学者；丹奈则张扬热情，拥有发泄不完的能量。两个人碰到一起所做的唯一一件事就是争吵，而且一吵就是几十年。李说过：“基本上，我们对于推理小说的看法完全不同。”丹奈则说：“我们对任何事的看法根本上都不相同。”就是这样一对冤家，却成为了推理小说创作领域的第一搭档。

Poirot returns to the scene of his very first crime to solve a mystery that will be his last.

Poirot returns to the scene of his very first crime to solve a mystery that will be his last.

'Don't talk bunk ' said Mr Douglas. 'You can't carry on with the show with a man dying on stage. Drop the curtain ' When Douglas B. Douglas - leading light of the London theatre - premieres his new musical extravaganza, Blue Music, he is sure the packed house will be dazzled by the performance. What he couldn't predict is the death of his star, Brandon Baker, on stage in the mi...(展开全部)

The author, Alan Melville, was a successful playwright and man of the theatre, and he uses his knowledge of backstage life to good effect in this breezy whodunit. The slender plot revolves around the shooting of the leading man, but when the show opens at the Grosvenor Theatre to a packed house, Brandon Baker is killed by a real bullet. When another member of the company is fou...(展开全部)