量子资源网提供本资源 <> James Bentley is tried for the murder of Abigail McGinty, the charwoman of Broadhinny who also took in Bentley as her lodger. The evidence is overwhelming, and soon after he is sentenced to hang. Suerintendent Sence is not convinced of the man's guilt, and so he visits Poirot, asking him to look into the case. Poirot then heads off to the village, where he becomes the aying guest of Maureen and Major Johnnie Summerhayes. Ariadne Oliver, Poirot's novelist friend, has also come to Broadhinny to collaborate on a stage adatation of one of her novels with dramatist Robin Uward. With the clue of a bottle of ink urchased by the dead woman shortly before her death, Poirot searches Mrs. McGinty's belongings and finds an edition of The Sunday Comet newsaer, where an article concerning two women connected with famous murders has been cut out. With the story are two hotograhs of the women. Poirot discovers that Mrs. McGinty had seen one of the hotograhs before, and knew to whom it belonged to. But which woman was this case connected with? Are any of the eole living in Broadhinny related to these women, as one of their children? Or erhas one of them is one of the actual women? The uzzle ieces begin to fit in, esecially after Poirot is shoved into the ath of an oncoming train by an unknown entity. But will the murderer strike again?
