Spenser is hired out of town but may be out of his league when a terrorist group with a taste for car bombs targets a controversial African leader.

Anne Beddingfeld wants more than the humdrum routine of the workaday world. She counteracts this by stepping out of the Cairo Airport and into a world of stolen diamonds, secret messages, criminal masterminds, spies and sudden death.

A prominent attorney's wife dies of cyanide poisoning; but when he attempts to recreate the crime scene, he, too, is poisoned. The heiress to the estate is the prime suspect, but there have been apparent attempts on her life also.

"Death on the Nile": A pleasure cruise down the Nile turns deadly when a murder is discovered on board. "Sad Cypress": The solution to a double-murder case appears to be cut and dried, but Poirot's instincts eventually lead him to the real truth. "The Hollow": A weekend retreat where all the guests appear to despise one another finds Poirot hard at work doing what he does best. "Five little pigs": Poirot agrees to help a young woman prove her mother's...