Beautiful young Elinor Carlisle stood serenely in the dock,accused of the murder of Mary Gerrard, her rival in love. The evidence was damning: only Elinor had the motive, the opportunity and the means to administer the fatal poison.
Yet, inside the hostile courtroom,only one man still presumed Elinor was innocent until proven guilty:Hercule Poirot was all that stood between Elinor and the gallows...