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One of Christie's darkest and most emotional novels. "The misfortune of the innocent is worse than the guilt of the guilty." According to Agatha Christie herself, this is, along with The Haunted House, the best novel she has ever written.
Two years after Rachel Argyle was murdered in her home, and her adopted son Jacko was convicted and soon died in prison, Dr. Arthur Calgary arrives at the family's Sunny Point home. He brings evidence that changes everything: Jacko was innocent - Calgary had hitchhiked him that fateful day and has a solid alibi that he didn't report because he ended up on an Antarctic expedition.
The Argyle family - wealthy, philanthropic Rachel and her five adopted children - were sure that justice had been served. Now the terrible truth is revealed: the killer is still among them. Each of the surviving children (the resentful Hester, the jealous Mary, the bitter Michael, the disabled Philip and the devoted Gwenda) had a motive - because Rachel was a tyrannical "mother" who controlled her adopted children's lives with money and guilt.
Calgary's arrival sets off a chain of fear, suspicion and new crimes. Someone is trying to silence the truth with murder. Christie doesn't use Poirot or Miss Marple here - the story is a psychological thriller about guilt, trauma and revenge. The final twist reveals that the real "innocent victim" is the entire family - destroyed not just by the murder, but by the lie they all accepted as salvation.
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