故事发生在1939年的8月，八名身处世界各地，互相并不认识的人在同一时间收到了欧文夫妇的来信，信中热情的邀请他们前往位于德文海岸附近的士兵岛上做客，在这里，这对夫妻拥有一幢非常豪华的别墅。很快，八个人就各自动身了，可当抵达了小岛后，他们却被告知欧文夫妇并不在家，接待他们的是两名岛上的管家。 就这样，八个人在兴奋又疑惑的情绪中接连进入了别墅内。当晚用餐时，餐厅的一台留声机忽然响了，一个神秘的声音开始控诉起在座的八人，声称他们都曾犯下过谋杀之罪。更糟糕的是，没过多久，第一个牺牲者便出现了。

瑞秋（安娜·钱斯勒 Anna Chancellor 饰）是一位富有而善良的女性，收养了五个孩子。一天，她被人发现在自己家中遭到了谋杀，警方在犯罪现场找到了她的其中一名养子杰克（安东尼·鲍伊 Anthony Boyle 饰）的指纹，杰克被视为最大嫌疑人，遭到了逮捕。可是，就在庭审即将开始之际，杰克在狱中死于一场意外，这宗案件就以杰克是凶手为结果就此盖棺定论。 一晃眼十八个月过去，当瑞秋的丈夫里昂（比尔·奈伊 Bill Nighy 饰）即将和他的未婚妻携手步入婚姻殿堂之际，一位名为亚瑟（卢克·崔德威 Luke Treadaway 饰）的男子出现在了他们面前，并且带来了一个爆炸性的消息——杀死瑞秋的凶手并非杰克，而是另有他人。

Agatha Christie's disturbing 1960s mystery thriller, reissued with a striking new cover designed to appeal to the latest generation of Agatha Christie fans and book lovers. Gipsy's Acre was a truly beautiful upland site with views out to sea -- and in Michael Rogers it stirred a child-like fantasy. There, amongst the dark fir trees, he planned to build a house, find a girl and live happily ever after. Yet, as he left the village, a shadow of menace hung over the land. For this was the place where accidents happened. Perhaps Michael should have heeded the locals' warnings: 'There's no luck for them as meddles with Gipsy's Acre.' Michael Rogers is a man who is about to learn the true meaning of the old saying 'In my end is my beginning!'

Poirot sets himself a challenge before he retires - to solve 12 cases which correspond with the labours of his classical Greek namesake...In appearance Hercule Poirot hardly resembled an ancient Greek hero. Yet -- reasoned the detective -- like Hercules he had been responsible for ridding society of some of its most unpleasant monsters. So, in the period leading up to his retirement, Poirot made up his mind to accept just twelve more cases: his self-imposed 'Labours'. Each would go down in the annals of crime as a heroic feat of deduction.