This work is unique. Usually, detective novels written by the great Agatha Christie were immediately sent to print. But this novella, in an astonishing way, got lost in dusty archives for a full 70 years...
The famous detective Hercule Poirot received a call from his longtime friend, the detective writer Ariadne Oliver, who asked him to urgently come to Devonshire at the Grinishor House estate. It turns out that a big celebration is planned at the house, and she has been invited to organize an exciting game, “The Hunt for a Killer.” Using non-obvious clues, players must discover on the estate grounds a “corpse”—played by one of the guests—and identify the “murderer.” Ariadne wanted Poirot to help her with the organization, and the great Belgian couldn’t refuse. But when the game was already approaching its climax and its participants found the “corpse,” it turned out that it was… real! So the game is over. The trail of the murderer is taken up by none other than Hercule Poirot himself...