Dead Man's Folly

Eccentric and celebrated crime novelist Ariadne Oliver is invited to Nasse House by Sir George Stubbs, a wealthy magnate, to devise a 'murder hunt' game for a summer fete. Known for her uncanny intuition, Oliver soon finds herself disturbed by an unsettling feeling that something isn't quite right; the mock murder she's orchestrating feels dangerously close to reality. Sensing genuine peril, she summons her old friend, the incomparable Hercule Poirot. Her premonition proves grimly accurate when, during the actual fete, the young girl playing the murder victim is discovered to be genuinely dead. Poirot arrives to find himself immersed in a complex and dangerous puzzle, untangling a web of secrets, hidden identities, and long-simmering resentments among the seemingly benign guests and residents of Nasse House. As the lines between game and reality blur, the Belgian detective must use all his wits to expose the killer hiding in plain sight before more lives are lost.