I’ve finished another book by Agatha Christie about the prominent detective. Like the last book, this story was written with too many old-fashioned words so the reading was quite tough sometimes. Though the plot is compelling, as usual for this author.
The story evolves in a huge mansion where the rich old man decided to gather all his family and to have some fun, playing with their feelings. No one in the family really loves the old man, but they need his money and waiting for his death. In addition to the immediate family, in the mansion arrives the old man’s granddaughter from Spain and the son of his old friend from South Africa. Both of them are unknown to the entire family.
The old man is arranging the scene where all the quests overheard his conversation with his lawyer about upcoming changes in the will, then he insults their sons calling them useless and dismissed all the guests from his part of the mansion. That very evening the horrible cry is spreading around the room and guests found the old man killed in a locked room.
After the murder Hercule Poirot arrives at the scene and has a lond talks with all guests who were inside the building. During the investigation he found that almost all in family lied to him about their alibi and grand daughter and friend’s son are fake. However, the murderer was utterly unexpected, because it was a police officer who conducted investigation. Ath the same time he was unknown son of the old man “from the other side of the blanket” and his act was a revenge for old man’s old sins.