A man is found shot through the head in a locked room. A wealthy banker disappears while posting a letter. A thief vanishes with a haul of rubies and emerals. And, in the golden sands of Egypt, the men who discovered an ancient tomb are dying one by one...

Hercule Poirot, the fussy Belgian detective with the egg-shaped head and neat and tidy moustache, solved some of the world's most puzzling crimes. This book contains four of the very best stories, selected by Jonh Curran, author of Agatha Christie's Secret Notebooks, and Sophie Hannah, who wrote the brand new Hercule Poirot novel, The Monogram Murders.