An old widow is brutally killed in the parlour of her cottage...
`Mrs McGintys dead!
`How did she die?
`Down on one knee just like I!
The old childrens 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.
Suspicion falls immediately on her lodger hard up and out of a job. Hercule Poirot has other ideas - unaware that his own life is now in great danger..