The old house is a guest hotel under new owners, Colonel and Mrs Luttrell. X is among the guests at Styles Court with them. Poirot, using a wheelchair due to arthritis, and attended by his new valet Curtiss, will not share the name of the previously unsuspected person, using X instead. Poirot alone sees the pattern of involvement. Poirot calls-on his old friend, the recently-widowed Hastings, to join him in solving this case. Four of these suspects have since died (one of them hanged) in the case of Freda Clay, who gave her aunt an overdose of morphine, there was too little evidence to prosecute. A specific person is unsuspected of involvement in five murders by both the police and family of the victims.
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