Scotland Yard's Adam Dalgliesh is called to investigate when a government minister receives threatening letters. The Minister's own household is a challenge. His exquisite wife makes no secret of her adulterous affair with a fashionable surgeon. His only daughter, deeply involved in left-wing politics, has rejected her Conservative father. He is even resented by his own, strong-willed mother, whose favored son was killed in an IRA terrorist ambush....

Accused of fabricating a defense for his client, Manchester lawyer, Jack Roper throws his life and the lives of his legal team into turmoil after his single-minded pursuit of the truth puts his career in jeopardy. Tensions run high between Jack's chambers and those of the prosecution, headed by his one-time mentor, Laurence Scammel, much to the annoyance of Laurence's daughter, Laura. Relations become more complex between Charlie Darling and his wife,...

"Mystery surrounds a young woman after her new husband is killed in the London Blitz, but with the discovery of new information, Poirot wonders about her true motives." --

Sir John Falstaff, knowing that Mrs. Ford and Mrs. Page control the money in their respective households, decides to seduce them, but they learn of his scheme and resolve to make a fool of him. A comic series of disguises and misadventures follows.