Who was the real Caroline Crale? Her artist husband thought her a perfect wife. His avid mistress saw her as a grasping, cunning adversary. His best friend knew her as a beautiful maddening vixen. Her young half-sister believed her an angel of mercy. Her tormented daughter could not decide if she was a hateful hypocrite or a slandered saint. But Hercule Poirot has just one question about this fascinating, elusive creature. Was Caroline Crale a diabolical murderess?
The Dell Mapbacks were published by Dell Books from 1943 to 1951 in a series numbered from 5 to 550. The back of each book is illustrated with a map showing the significant locales of all the action in the book. While most titles are mysteries, the series also includes romances, movie tie-ins and westerns.
[Read by Hugh Fraser]Sixteen years after Caroline Crale was convicted of poisoning her husband, Carolines daughter comes to Hercule Poirot to investigate the case.
Poirot must delve deep into the past to find out how Carla Lemarchant's father died--was it suicide, or did her mother, who was convicted of the crime and died in prison, murder her husband?