`Good night for a murder`, Inspector Japp remarked to Hercule Poirot as they walked home from a dinner on Guy Fawkes Night. `Nobody would hear a shot, for instance, on a night like this.` And indeed, the next morning, master sleuth Hercule Poirot is called to 14 Bardsley Gardens Mews to investigate the strangest of mysteries... a case of murder disguised as suicide...