Poirot's keen powers of observation and culinary know-how help him solve a murder case.
Lawrence's sexual failings are threatening his marriage to Elizabeth. He subtly suggests that his publisher, Sir Edwin Partridge, step in, and Sir Edwin willingly agrees.
Fletch is laid up in the prison hospital with a broken ankle. In the next bed is the aged Blanco Webb. In the opposite bed is the unpleasant Norris. But Fletch and Blanco have their revenge.