Description

First Australian Edition [The Crime Club, Sydney, 1953]; 208 pages; red cloth, black titling to spine, a little rubbed at extremities, bookshop stamp inside front board, faint discolouration inner hinge for a few pages, a very good copy; in the near-fine dustjacket, slightly tanned verso

After the funeral of Richard Abernethie, his large family gathers in Abernethie’s Victorian mansion to hear the will read. In the crowded room, Abernethie’s sister Cora remarks that her brother was murdered and everything’s been hushed up. But if her brother was murdered, perhaps she should’ve guessed the murderer would be listening in that day. When Cora’s found dead the next morning, the family solicitor calls in Poirot to discover the truth within this complicated family web.