A follow-up to the internationally best-selling The Monogram Murders continues the adventures of Agatha Christies beloved self-congratulatory sleuth. Simultaneous. Lady Athelinda Playford announces her decision to cut her children out of her will and leave her fortune to an invalid with just weeks to live, a declaration Hercule Poirot senses was made to provoke a murder. Internationally bestselling author Sophie Hannah and the worlds favorite detective Hercule Poirot return in this follow-up to The Monogram Murders, the national bestseller hailed by the Washington Post as literary magic.