Sir Charles Cartwright should have known better than to allow thirteen guests to sit down for dinner. For at the end of the evening one of them is dead -choked by a cocktail which contained no trace of poison. Predictable, says Hercule Poirot, the great detective. But entirely unpredictable is that he can find absolutely no motive for murder...

’Mrs Christie at the top of her form.’

--Dorothy L.Sayers, Sunday Times

First Act

Suspicion

1 Crow’s Nest 

2 Incident Before Dinner 

3 Sir Charles Wonders 

4 A Modem Elaine 

5 Flight From A Lady 

Second Act

Certainty

1 Sir Charles Receives A Letter 

2 The Missing Butler 

3 Which Of Them? 

4 The Evidence Of The Servants 

5 In The Butler’s Room 

6 Concerning An Ink-Stain

7 Plan Of Campaign 

Third Act

Dlscovery

1 Mrs Babbington

2 Lady Mary

3 Re-Enter Hercule Poirot 

4 A Watching Brief

5 Division of Labour

6 Cynthia Dacres 

7 Captain Dacres 

8 Angela Sutcliffe 

9 Muriel Wills 

10 Oliver Manders 

11 Poirot Gives A Sherry Party 

12 Day At Gilling

13 Mrs De Rushbridger

14 Miss Milray

15 Curtain