Crime club novel

Nineteenth in the long-running mystery series with Dr Launcelot Priestley. >The motor-cruiser Alondra had come over the harbour bar at Riddinghithe with the last of the flood and dropped anchor for the night. The next morning a boatman putting out to do a bit of fishing noticed the body of a man lying across the cabin top. He put his helm down and steered closer to investigate. And then he saw that the man’s head was shattered.… The police are baffled, as they cannot discover anything about the dead man beyond his name and the fact that he was a keen yachtsman. It remains for Dr. Priestley to bring about an entirely unexpected dénouement....

Poirot had been present when Jane bragged of her plan to 'get rid of' her estranged husband. Now the monstrous man was dead, but how could Jane have stabbed Lord Edgware to death in his library at exactly the same time she was seen dining with friends? And what could be her motive now that the aristocrat had vinally granted her a divorce?

> Who put the poison in blonde femme fatale Nita Prince's coffee cup? >Wartime Britain: A hero returns from a secret mission and visits his onetime colleagues (among them, Nigel Strangeways) at the Ministry of Morale. His former fiancée, the beautiful Nita, is now having an affair with the director, his brother-in-law....