A thrilling masterpiece of suspense from the Queen of Crime, Agatha Christie.When Hercule Poirot receives a desperate plea for help from a South American millionaire, he and his faithful companion, Captain Hastings, hurry to the French coast. But they arrive too late. Paul Renauld is dead, his body found face-down in a shallow grave on a newly constructed golf course, stabbed in the back with a distinctive letter opener.The mystery deepens when Poirot discovers that the victim's wife was found gagged and bound in their villa, and a mysterious woman in the neighborhood seems to hold a dark influence over the household. As Poirot pits his "little grey cells" against the brash, modern methods of the Parisian detective Giraud, he uncovers a web of lies stretching back decades to a crime in Santiago.In this classic Golden Age mystery, nothing is as it seems, and the links of a golf course become the stage for a deadly game of cat and mouse. Narrated with elegance and precision by Jennifer Cramer, this production by Golden Age Mystery Audio brings one of Poirot's most complex cases to vivid life.