The eminent detective Hercule Poirot is relaxing at a picturesque seaside resort where the rich and famous take their holidays. There, duty calls when the body of beautiful and flirtatious actress Arlena Marshall is found strangled to death. Everyone on the island is a suspect, and the crime presents Poirot with one of the most baffling and surprising puzzles of his career. Agatha Christie never wrote a more cleverly woven story than this grim-yet-delicious revelation of evil under the sun.