Guy Fawkes' Night . . .
"Good night for a murder," Inspector Japp told his friend Hercule Poirot as they passed through Bardsely Gardens Mews. "Nobody would hear a shot, of instance, on a night like this."
Next morning, Barbara Allen was found dead in her locked flat at No. 14 Bardsley Garden Mews. her murderer had tried to make it look like suicide . . .
But he had reckoned without Hercule Poirot, who solved The Murder in the Mews and three more perplexing cases with his usual dazzling brilliance.