The dentist was found with a blackened hole below his right temple. A pistol lay on the floor near his outflung right hand. Later, one of his patients was found dead from a lethal dose of local anaesthetic. A clear case of murder and suicide. But why would a dentist commit a crime in the middle of a busy day of appointments? A shoe buckle holds the key to the mystery. Now - in the words of the rhyme - can Poirot pick up the sticks and lay them straight?
- ISBN10 0425105709
- ISBN13 9780425105702
- Publish Date 15 April 1987 (first published March 1969)
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 30 January 2010
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Penguin Putnam Inc
- Edition Open market ed
- Format Paperback
- Pages 240
- Language English