While watching from her train window, Nikki Collins witnesses a murder in a nearby building. When she alerts the police, they think she has read one too many mystery novels. She then enlists a popular mystery writer to help her solve the crime on her own, but her sleuthing attracts the attentions of suitors and killers.
Private eye Phillip Marlowe wants to get out of the detective racket and into crime writing. But when he's called to the office of editor Adrienne Fromsett, it's not to talk about his story ideas — she wants him to locate the missing wife of her boss, Mr. Kingsby. The assignment quickly becomes complicated when bodies start turning up.
In Acapulco, Hercule Poirot attends a dinner party in which one of the guests clutches his throat and suddenly dies. The causes seem to be natural until another party with most of the same guests produces another corpse.
Upon waking up to the news that the man she’d gone on a date with the previous night has been murdered, a young woman with only a faint memory of the night’s events begins to suspect that she murdered him while attempting to resist his advances.
İngiltere… 1953 yılı… Küçük bir kasaba olan St. Mary Mead, sinema dünyasının kraliçesi Marina Rudd’un muhteşem dönüşüne hazırlanmak üzere, bu kasaba da bir ev satın almasıyla olaylar başlar. Bir süre sonra kasabaya gelen film yapımcıları, ünlü oyuncular ve set ekibi nedeniyle adeta bir festival yaşanmaktadır. Fakat verilen bir partide , içine zehir katılmış bir kokteyli hayranlarından birinin içmesi ve zehirlenerek ölmesiyle. Marina kendisini, amatör dedektif bayan Marple’ın da içinde bulunduğu gerçek bir gizemin içinde bulur…