Agatha Christie was born in Torquay in 1890 and became, quite simply, the bestselling novelist in history. Her first novel, The Mysterious Affair at Styles, written towards the end of the First World War, introduced us to Hercule Poirot, who was to become the most popular detective in crime fiction since Sherlock Holmes. She is known throughout the world as the Queen of Crime. Her books have sold over a billion copies in the English language and another billion in over 100 foreign countries. She is the author of 80 crime novels and short story collections, 19 plays, and six novels under the name of Mary Westmacott. When Paul Renault asked for help from Hercule Poirot and Captain Hastings, little did he know he would not live to see them? The detective duo reaches France, only to be welcomed with the news of Renault?s murder. He had been stabbed multiple times with a letter opener on a nearby golf course and left in a freshly dug grave. Poirot is perplexed to see the dead man wearing his songs overcoat, with a passionate love letter in his pocket. His wife had reported that masked men had abducted him from their home in the dead of the night. The mystery thickens when another corpse is found, stabbed with the same weapon, in the same way. Poirot and Hastings are out to find the killer and cannot trust anyone ? The grieving widow, the son about to be disinherited, and a mysterious neighbor. In his second major investigative adventure, Poirot fights to unravel the mystery behind the murder on the links.