Ulverscroft Softcover

In the middle of the night in rural Scotland, Michael Starkwedder has run his car into a ditch and must go to the nearest house to seek help. But downstairs in this house, he discovers a murdered man in a wheelchair and a woman holding a recently fired gun. What seems obvious isn't, and the story that unfolds is classic Christie - a tangled web of lies and cover-ups, where nothing can be taken at face value, and the murderer, and motive, is the greatest mystery of all.

Clarissa Hailsham-Brown, the wife of a Foreign Office diplomat, is given to daydreaming. Supposing I were to come down one morning and find a dead body in the library, what should I do? She has her chance to find out when she discovers a corpse in the drawing-room of her house in Kent... Desperate to dispose of the body before her husband returns home accompanied by an important foreign politician, Clarissa persuades her three houseguests to become accessories and accomplices. The search begins for the murderer and the motive - all the while trying to persuade a police inspector that there has been no murder at all ...

Abigail Barton was brought up in Bath by Lady Jordan; her own parents died when she was a baby. Now her trustee, Mr Wood, insists that she goes to London for the Season, but Abby has no desire to marry. Abigail's sponsor, Lady Padmore, is bringing out her own daughter, Caroline, this Season, determined to marry her to cousin Julian. Meanwhile, Julian, intrigued by Abigail's unconventionality, lends his house for the ball. Then Abby's childhood friend, Hartley, arrives in London, Caroline's brother Dudley sells out from the army, and among the offers of marriage, she must accept someone - but whom?

Leo Kemp lives in Cape Cod with his wife and daughter, working for the Institute of Marine Biology - a seemingly idyllic life that hides heartbreak ... A few years ago their son drowned in an accident at sea, and the family cannot come to terms with his death. Then Leo loses his job, and his last field trip with the students ends in tragedy when a wave throws Leo overboard. Now, like his son, he's missing - presumed dead - the community is rocked. Yet when a man is sighted, living on an uninhabited island just miles off shore, rumours begin to circulate ...