1. Coffee:-The inventor Sir Claud Amory is left with a bitter taste in his mouth when the formula for his powerful new explosive is stolen-by someone staying in his own house.
2. Hercule Poirot's Christmas:-It is Christmas Eve. The Lee family reunion is shattered by a deafening crash of furniture, followed by a high-pitched wailing scream. The tyrannical Simeon Lee has been murdered, and Hercule Poirot is called in to investigate.
3. Appointment With Death:-A repugnant Amercian widow is killed during a trip to Petra...Among the towering red cliffs of Petra, like some monstrous swollen Buddha, sat the corpse of Mrs Boynton. A tiny puncture mark on her wrist was the only sign of the fatal injection that had killed her.