A simple case of theft turns into triple murder! The girl was dead-clearly a case of suicide. "Or was it suicide?" Hercule Poirot mused. Applying his shrewd mind to the disorderly facts and events surrounding the senseless thefts and the subsequent death of the girl, Poirot realized that the suicide had really been murder. "Was it part of a larger scheme?" he wondered. Before he could act, there was a second murder ... and then a third. Which of this international assortment of characters would stand in the dock?
There was trouble at the multinational Hostel for Students. It seemed there was a thief on the prowl. Hercule Poirot went to investigate, and there found several very bright young people - one of whom was also very dead!