Hercule Poirot is named to investigate the murder of the brother and sister, in this basic Agatha Christie secret now available in an updated model using a foreword Sophie Hannah.

“He was murdered, wasn’t he?”

When Cora Lansquenet is savagely murdered, the extraordinary remark she had produced the previous day at her sibling Richard’s funeral abruptly takes on a chilling significance. At the reading of Richard’s will, Cora was obviously heard to say, “It has been hushed up extremely very well, hasn’t it. But he was murdered, wasn’t he?”

Do Cora’s accusation a dark truth that sealed her own fate? Or will be the siblings’ deaths just tragic coincidences?

Desperate to know the reality, the Lansquenet’s solicitor converts to Hercule Poirot to unravel the mystery. For even after the funeral, death isn’t finished however .