Mrs McGinty's Dead

An old widow is brutally killed in the parlour of her cottage...

'Mrs McGinty's dead!'
'How did she die '
'Down on one knee, just like I!'

The old children's game now seemed rather tasteless. The real Mrs McGinty was killed by a crushing blow to the back of the head and her pitifully small savings were stolen.

Suspicion falls immediately on her lodger, hard up and out of a job. Hercule Poirot has other ideas - unaware that his own life is now in great danger...