Vivian Parry likes the dark. A former actress, she now works as the junior theater critic at a major Manhattan magazine. Her nights are spent beyond the lights, in a reserved seat, giving herself over to the shows she loves. By day, she savages them, with words sharper than a knife. Angling for a promotion, she reluctantly agrees to an interview,a conversation that reveals secrets she thought she had long since buried. Then her interviewer disappears...

When one of Sir Charls Cartwright's houseguests is poisoned, the master sleuth Hercule Poirot focuses his attention on the group of aristocrats and theater personalities gathered there for the weekend festivities.

A woman is found murdered in her new apartment in the Nihonbashi area of Tokyo. Living a quiet life, with nothing remarkable in her past and no known enemies, this newcomer's murder is as baffling as it was unlikely. Detective Kyochiro Kaga of the Tokyo Police Department is also a newcomer to area-recently transferred to the Nihonbashi precinct. Assigned to the task force investigating the murder, Kaga interviews the various local people somehow connected...

It's been one thing after another for Detective Grace McKenna and her team at the fledgling Portobello Detective Agency, and she's finally enjoying some peace as the leaves turn and Autumn beckons. But when a wealthy local landowner contacts her about a case so sensitive he can't even discuss it over the phone, Grace is instantly intrigued. Russian collector Sacha Komorov lives out of the public eye, despite his immense wealth and marriage to a famous...