The old cchildren's game now seemed rather tasteless. The real Mrs McGinty was killed by a crushing blow to the back of the head and her pitifully small savings were stolen. Could the answer lie in an article the deceased clipped from a newspaper two days before her death ? Suspicion falls immediately on her lodger, hard up and out of a job. Hercule Poirot has other ideas. with a desperate killer still free, Poirot will have to stay alive long enough to find out...