<p>An old widow is brutally killed in the parlour of her cottage...</p> <br> <br> <p>'Mrs McGinty's dead!'<br> <br> 'How did she die?'<br> <br> 'Down on one knee, just like I!'</p> <p>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.</p> <p>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...</p>